[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Add flash programming counter]

[Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>]

On Friday 07 March 2008, Clemens Koller wrote:
> ACK from my side to Jerry's version. Maybe a quite long fixed length (~40
> characters) bar would also be reasonable and the dot-time scaled to fit the
> progress.
>
> A progress bar needs IMO two informations:
> - that it's still working... so a quite frequent output of something to
> keep me calm. - how long it will take... so I know how much time I will
> have to get the next cup of coffee to keep me tickin'.
>
> Perfect (= close to overkill, I know) would be IMO an additional output
> like:
>
> Programming Flash from 0xc0ldbeef to 0xc0ldcafe takes 112s.
> .................                                       |
>
> So, I don't need to estimate from the first dots how long it will take to
> complete.

I don't think printing the programming time/speed at beginning of the 
operation is doable. At least not without bigger changes. But an output at 
end of the operation like:

Wrote 512kB in 5.4 seconds (94,8 kB/s)

would be nice. This way the developer could see, if the interface to the FLASH 
chips is optimized. But I think this is overkill too. Let's concentrate on a 
clean progress bar with a fixed length.

Patches welcome. :)

Best regards,
Stefan

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