the following patch was just integrated into master: commit 7ecc912b32f3fa1f94c1aadaba275ddb3d5efac5 Author: Shawn Nematbakhsh shawnn@chromium.org Date: Thu Sep 12 18:09:39 2013 -0700
libpayload: Increase accuracy of timeout period for media init.
When bringing up media, we claim to wait for up to 30 seconds for a device to respond to our TEST_UNIT_READY command. Actually, we can wait far longer because we do not take into account execution delay.
To improve timeout accuracy, make use of gettimeofday(), which calculates time based upon a CPU counter. This improves the user experience slightly when certain non-working USB devices are used.
Change-Id: Id9605ecfc0a522d7a0b039fd8eac541232605082 Signed-off-by: Shawn Nematbakhsh shawnn@chromium.org Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/169208 Reviewed-by: Julius Werner jwerner@chromium.org (cherry picked from commit 1d3d535db83ff478c512e37f37015b43927b3efc) Signed-off-by: Isaac Christensen isaac.christensen@se-eng.com Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/6646 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net Reviewed-by: Ronald G. Minnich rminnich@gmail.com
See http://review.coreboot.org/6646 for details.
-gerrit