>>CAM has finished probing at this point, but it holds off on announcing >>devices until it has all necessary info. The drives may need to >>be spun up, etc. I believe the printf happens before the device has >>been opened and CAM blocks in the open until the device is really >>ready for service. > >I think we should hold off the rootdev determination until after the >printfs, unless you tell me that this will delay the boot by many >seconds in too many cases.
It will probably add 5->15 seconds for anyone with a cdrom drive with even greater delays for people with more than 2 or 3 devices. There are also devices like scanners and older WORM devices that can take up to a minute to become ready. It seems quite silly to me to hold up booting for devices that are not even referenced during boot. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
