On Thu, 16 May 2002, Stefan Bambach wrote:

> Do you mean, that you can influence the speed of the cpu ? I
> asked some time ago, for FSB, cpu voltage and multiplier
> configuration. Is this what you mean or did I miss the
> point ?

No, this is the MTRR setup that AMD did not release until a few weeks ago.
It was released as part of K8 documentation.

[[Unfortunately it took them so long to release it that a couple of
thousand-node-clusters are going to be P4, not K7, but that's the way it
goes. ]]


> 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.

I still think this is doable. Tyson Sawyer reports 12 seconds to level 3
(multiuser) a few years ago.


> What configuration do you use for that ?
> - special kernel configs
> - linuxbios config
> - serial console turned off
> - all drivers as modules
> - what drivers are compiled in
> - no init process
> - ide disabled

oh boy. I'll have to work a while to get all this.

I'll try to find a .config for you.

ron

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