Hans de Goede wrote:
Dave Jones wrote:
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 04:55:54PM -0700, Andrew Farris wrote:
> Harald Hoyer wrote:
> > Compiling these modules, which are loaded on nearly every PC, in
the > > kernel cuts down my boot time from 42s to 32s on my computer:
> > > floppy
> > I was going to suggest you might want to leave that one out,
since I wouldn't > think its that common anymore... then I checked,
and this is loaded on my > machine which has no floppy.
The code to detect if we have a floppy controller lives... in the
floppy module.
It's not something that's trivially detectable like pci/usb devices.
Isn't this (determing wether or not to load floppy.ko) done (on PC's) by
checking if the BIOS has a floppy configured?
Andrew, can you see if your BIOS thinks you have a floppy (the default)
and if so tell it it hasn't, then floppy.ko shouldn't get loaded anymore
and that should results in a couple of secs ood speedup.
My BIOS has the floppy deliberately turned off (set not present) and in fact the
floppy drive has been removed. That does not rule out a Dell BIOS bug though
(Dell precision 340 workstation).
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