From: Rusty Russell The IDE probe is the slowest part of boot: by suppressing it we cut boot from from 4.1 seconds to 0.6 seconds. It turns out that paravirt_disable_iospace() does just this. Woot! Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/lguest/lguest.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/lguest/lguest.c~lguest-the-guest-code-suppress-ide-probing drivers/lguest/lguest.c --- a/drivers/lguest/lguest.c~lguest-the-guest-code-suppress-ide-probing +++ a/drivers/lguest/lguest.c @@ -510,6 +510,8 @@ __init void lguest_init(void) reserve_top_address(lguest_data.reserve_mem); + paravirt_disable_iospace(); + cpu_detect(&new_cpu_data); /* Math is always hard! */ new_cpu_data.hard_math = 1; _