[LAU] HDSP timeout

[Florian Faber]

Peter!

> When booting my computer having the HDSP Pcmcia card inserted but no 
> multiface connected, something in the boot process times out and delays 
> the boot for 16seconds, posting
> "Hammerfall DSP: No Digiface or Multiface connected" (obviously).
> My question is, is this delay necessary? What is causing this delay and 
> why does the timeout happen after such a long time?

It is caused by a patch added by Tim IIRC to compensate new power
managment for Cardbus slots.

> Don't get me wrong, everything works as it should, but whenever I boot 
> into my machine I wonder (for about 16seconds) if there is a quicker way 
> of making the computer become aware of the fact that I don't have the 
> multiface connected.

Remove the patch or modify the timeout :)


Flo
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