Subject: Re: delay before cpu_reset()
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Stefan Grefen <grefen@hprc.tandem.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/09/1998 20:09:13
In message <19981009181704.27413@antioche.lip6.fr> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>
> Hi,
> does some object to this change ?
Yes, (re)booting on a x86 is slow enough we don't have to make it worse.
For a server you want it to come up as fast as possible ..
Please:
1) do it only for pcconsole, comconsole doesn't need it
2) make it sysctl so I can turn it off (or a config option at least).
Stefan
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