linux booting problem: init start up very slowly and print kernelinfor character by character

[Jack Liu]

Sylvain Munaut
hi,all
 Thanks a lot. I checked my porting code and the answer is yes. After
assigned a right interrupt number, everything is ok.
   Best regards

======= 2004-03-24 18:01:00 Origianl message=======

>>  Booting infomation:
>>		.......
>>		mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
>>		VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
>>		Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k init
>>		~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~before this, everything is OK.
>>		INIT: version 2.84 booting
>>  			              Welcome....
>> From "INIT", system seems to start very slowly. "INIT" and other
>> kernel infomation were printed out character by character with some
>> kind of delay between them.It took even five minutes to mount a proc
>> file system.
>>        What could be the problem?
>>  Is this becuase of disk configuation problem since init is the first
>> program got called from disk?
>
>Well, I suppose that it's on a serial console.
>
>For me it sounds like a serial problem. Everything before the "INIT:
>...." is printed via printk and is then handled by the 'console'
>part of the serial driver. In all the drivers I've used/seen this is
>done the simpliest way, often via busy waiting on the uart, without
>interrupts, ..... When the init program it's called, it doesn't use
>the console stuff ( it's unidirectionnal anyway ... ) but it open
>/dev/ttyS0 ( or the appropriate device ) and it's not at all the same
>code running. Here ( again, in the driver I worked with ), interrupts
>are used to know when the UART is ready or when chars are incoming, ...
>
>What you could try to see if it comes from the serial stuff, is disable
>consoel completely and 'see' the time it takes to boot ( of course you
>need to have another visible effect that you system is fully booted
>like inserting a ping -c 1 at the end of the init scripts ... )

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Best regards
Jack Liu
R&D Dept. USI(Shanghai) Inc.
Tel: +86-21-58966996x115
Fax: +86-21-58967931
Email: Jack_liu at usish.com
http://www.usi.com.tw

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