Hangs after "Loading" but before "Uncompressing"

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> This same mechanism can be used for small timeouts in kernel
> drivers. In other words, we don't really need 'BogoMIPS'. You
> can spin on the hardware rather than a register-count.

I took a look and reading timer hardware is much too slow for
replacing bogomips. (Do_slow_gettimeoffset takes 3usec or so. Much too
much.)

								Pavel
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