19 Apr
2009
19 Apr
'09
3:40 a.m.
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 09:14:06PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
On my epia-cn machine, it takes coreboot-v2 8.7 seconds to launch SeaBIOS. It looks like about 4 seconds is lost due to a reboot half-way through the startup - I'm guessing a watchdog timer is kicking in. As to why it takes so long to boot - maybe rom caching is off?
Nope - looks like calibrate_tsc is taking 2.9 seconds to calibrate:
00.608: Jumping to coreboot. 00.609: coreboot-2.0.0-epiacn Sat Apr 18 21:34:47 EDT 2009 booting... 00.612: Calibrating delay loop... 03.530: end 12e0a2189, start 292b71b4 03.532: 32-bit delta 4173 03.533: calibrate_tsc 32-bit result is 4173 03.534: clocks_per_usec: 4173 03.536: Enumerating buses...
-Kevin