"Jens Mühlenhoff", le Tue 24 Aug 2010 14:08:25 +0200, a écrit :
> > > I think that one of the built-in drivers of gnumach is the problem here,
> >
> > I guess you're thinking about the "probing eata" messages, which I added
> > precisely because VirtualBox takes eons to emulate it. This is
> >
> > linux/src/drivers/scsi/eata.c: printk("probing eata on %lx\n",
> > port_base);
>
> Yes, that's where it takes a long time. Is it really necessary for the driver
> to probe alle these ports?
Apparently yes, the driver is not able to know where it is, and with PCI
enumeration it might be anywhere.
> > > so I was looking at the source package of gnumach, but couldn't find
> > > any documentation on how to specify which drives to include (linux
> > > Linux "make menuconfig").
> >
> > It's the usual configure --enable/--disable.
> >
> > € ./configure --help | grep eata
> > --enable-eata Linux device driver for SCSI controller EATA
> > --enable-eata_dma Linux device driver for SCSI controller EATA-DMA
> > --enable-eata_pio Linux device driver for SCSI controller EATA-PIO
>
> Ok, didn't think about that one ...
Now the question might be: should we keep it enabled by default?
Ideally the bug should just be fixed in VirtualBox (supposedly free
software).
Samuel
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