> Ooops. I think you mean that my init process takes 12 seconds.
> NO. I meant that the complete boot process from power on to
> init process (init process itself excluded) needs this time.
If you are using the hardcoded msr initcode for k7, it takes a very long time to
decompress the kernel even you have a very fast k7 cpu.(you can see it counts 
d0, d1, d2... from the post).  It doesn't happen on intel platform though.  
Unless AMD allows linuxbios project to use the proper(NDA) method to init msr, 
it is very hard to optimize it.  Does AMD just release that part of 
information?!

> RGM> No, I see this today even now with the 2.4.x kernel and a winfast 6300
> RGM> with a 600 Mhz. Celeron. Also on ASUS with a PIII. AMD really handicapped
> RGM> themselves for linuxbios and we're just now straightening that out.

-Andrew

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