Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Reduce panic timeout from 180s to 10s

From: Anton Blanchard <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 10:56:19 +1100

> > > We made this change to pseries in 2011 and I think it makes
> > > sense to do the same on powernv.
> > 
> > I'd vote we set it to 10s for all 64-bit machines in
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c.
> 
> Why is 64-bit relevant?  And wouldn't such a short delay be a problem
> if the crash is displayed on a monitor?

That is why we made it pseries specific in the past. Almost all our
boxes are on a virtual console and the 3 minutes of pausing just hurt
our uptimes.

If other platform maintainers prefer to keep the 3 minute pause, then
we just change the PowerNV platform.

Anton