From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755852AbXEYXul (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2007 19:50:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752527AbXEYXuc (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2007 19:50:32 -0400 Received: from adelie.ubuntu.com ([82.211.81.139]:45594 "EHLO adelie.ubuntu.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752280AbXEYXub (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2007 19:50:31 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] i386/x86_64: Allow disabling the putstr's from compressed boot wrapper From: Ben Collins To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Jesse Barnes , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <46577112.7090106@zytor.com> References: <98cd38b5.git.bcollins@ubuntu.com> <1180097543.12570.396.camel@cunning> <46573CE4.8080300@zytor.com> <200705251623.55551.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> <46577112.7090106@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Canonical Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 19:50:53 -0400 Message-Id: <1180137053.12570.446.camel@cunning> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.11.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 16:28 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Jesse Barnes wrote: > > > > But how often do you have to debug bootloader or compressed boot code? In > > fact, most debug output like this isn't very useful after some initial > > debugging, so we usually take it out. I'm not sure why this would be any > > different... > > > > You're asking me this? > > I get to hear all the time about some new platform -- sometimes exotic, > sometimes not -- breaking early boot. Truth be told, I'd much rather just remove the informational pustr's and leave the error ones enabled. If it's acceptable, I can just remove those lines, or make them only work with -DDEBUG. -- Ubuntu : http://www.ubuntu.com/ Linux1394: http://wiki.linux1394.org/