On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 16:43 +0100, David Vrabel wrote: > On 23/09/14 15:30, Ian Campbell wrote: > > create ! > > title it "30s delay loading xenfb driver on some systems" > > owner it Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]> > > thanks > > > > Hi James, > > > > Some of the other Xen devs were discussing an issue which sounded > > awfully similar to this one, so I am copying the xen-devel list and > > creating a Xen bug to track the issue, please CC xen-devel (no need to > > subscribe but you may be moderated the first time), since the tracker > > slurps mails from the list. > > > > I'm not sure of the details of the other issue but it involved > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b1a3b1c8a8d963424c4699efa64dd8986b2f76d7 > > hopefully Konrad or one of the others will follow up. > > > > For xen-devel, the first two mails in this thread are > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2014/09/msg00229.html and > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2014/09/msg00233.html > > The wait stuff for xenbus devices looks like pre-dates distros handling > asynchronous devices with suitable initrds etc.
Perhaps, but I think most distros still don't use rootwait by default so unless / turns up reasonably promptly (single digit seconds) the boot may fail. > I think we need a command line configurable white list of device types > to wait for. The default should be (to match what was done historically): > > PV: vbd, vif, pci, vfb, vkbd. > HVM: vbd, vif. > > I also think it should be possible to default (via a config option) to > an empty white list. Irrespective of the above this seems like a reasonable enough idea to me. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
