In message <199905221811.maa09...@pluto.plutotech.com>, "Justin T. Gibbs" write s: >>>CAM has finished probing at this point, but it holds off on announcing >>>devices until it has all necessary info. The drives may need to >>>be spun up, etc. I believe the printf happens before the device has >>>been opened and CAM blocks in the open until the device is really >>>ready for service. >> >>I think we should hold off the rootdev determination until after the >>printfs, unless you tell me that this will delay the boot by many >>seconds in too many cases. > >It will probably add 5->15 seconds for anyone with a cdrom drive with >even greater delays for people with more than 2 or 3 devices. There >are also devices like scanners and older WORM devices that can take >up to a minute to become ready. It seems quite silly to me to hold >up booting for devices that are not even referenced during boot.
Hmm, OK then... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member p...@freebsd.org "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
