Mark Heslep writes:
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven writes:
>
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>
> Add 30 seconds if you're booting off aic79xx.o
>
> Why does loading that gawd-awful microcode take so long?
>
> I don't notice ANY delay when booting XP on the same box.
>
> It shouldn't take more than one or two seconds to initialize the SCSI
> card.
>
>
Same with mptscsi / mptbase here. At least 30 (x2 - once in the bios
post and again when the kernel driver loads)
Well, BIOS POST you can't do anything about.
But XP initializes an Adaptec SCSI controller in, at most, 1-2 seconds.
No way did Microsoft write the SCSI driver code themselves. It had to have
come from Adaptec, at some point down the line.
So, if Adaptec is, supposedly, gung-ho about Linux these days, why can't
they produce a version of aic7xxx.ko that doesn't give you plenty of time to
brew a pot of coffee, before it's done whatever the hell it's doing?