Subject: Re: slow in user space?

From: Dan Malek <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 10:46:19 -0400

John Ma wrote:

>    I have a MPC8241 board and  running ppc kernel 2.4.21-pre7 on it.

> ....But after the root filesystem is mounted and
> /sbin/init is started, the system becomes very slow.  I need to wait
> several minutes for the login console.

Your DUART interrupts aren't routed/initialized correctly.  The serial
driver has timeouts that slowly poll the driver if interrupts aren't
showing up.

	-- Dan

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