Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Preliminary 2.6.19 support for PetaLinux

[John Williams <jwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Johann,

Thanks for the patches - some other comments below:

Dr. Johann Pfefferl wrote:

> - The kernel boots and a login is possible. See the attached boot log
>   file. I provide a small bash script which converts an auto-config.in
>   file to the new Kconfig.auto format. This way it is very easy to adapt
>   the kernel to your platform.

I'll be releasing the updated MLD/TCL scripts soon enough, once they 
stabilise a little.

> - I detected a slow down of the system performance during the boot
>   phase.
>   Until the boot message
>   "io scheduler cfq registered (default)"
>   the kernel seems to run with normal speed. But before/after the boot step
>   "ttyS0 at MMIO 0xffff2000 (irq = 1) is a Xilinx OPB UART Lite"
>   every action progresses less fast.

Yep - I've seen this too.  It's something to do with SYSFS - try turning 
it off and see if you get any faster - I know I do.  Haven't looked into 
why it's so slow yet.

Cheers,

John
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