Bug#620278: linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64: tpm_tis failure increases boot time a llllooootttt

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 08:47:52PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 2.6.38-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> there are several problems with this linux-image, either the configuration or
> patches as a self-compile 2.6.38-rc7 does not suffer from those problems.
> The boot process (until login on vt1 is possible) take >6 minutes with the
> Debian kernel while the self-compiled (although almost everything that's
> needed is compiled-in) kernel takes far less than 1 minute (never measured
> this).
> 
> If you more information than below, just tell me.
[...]

This seems to be the fault of the tpm_tis driver.

I think I will disable auto-loading of this driver, as it can take
a very long time to (fail to) initialise on some systems while very
few users will actually need it.

Ben.
 

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