From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753515AbXEYXiy (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2007 19:38:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752111AbXEYXir (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2007 19:38:47 -0400 Received: from outbound-mail-36.bluehost.com ([69.89.20.190]:34374 "HELO outbound-mail-36.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752076AbXEYXir (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2007 19:38:47 -0400 From: Jesse Barnes To: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] i386/x86_64: Allow disabling the putstr's from compressed boot wrapper Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 16:38:37 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Ben Collins , Andi Kleen , Ben Collins , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <98cd38b5.git.bcollins@ubuntu.com> <200705251623.55551.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> <46577112.7090106@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <46577112.7090106@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705251638.37489.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> X-Identified-User: {642:box128.bluehost.com:virtuous:virtuousgeek.org} {sentby:smtp auth 76.102.120.196 authed with jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday, May 25, 2007 4:28:18 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. Right, but you're special that way. And moreover, you would know how to add such debug statements as needed. But is this output something we really need enabled unconditionally for everyone? I personally don't care that much, aside from the feeling that we have way too many printks in general... Jesse