From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:54:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from h5.dl5rb.org.uk ([81.2.74.5]:60914 "EHLO h5.dl5rb.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S1492659AbZHJNyo (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:54:44 +0200 Received: from h5.dl5rb.org.uk (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by h5.dl5rb.org.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n7ADtNv8027101; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:55:24 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by h5.dl5rb.org.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n7ADtLm5027098; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:55:21 +0100 Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:55:21 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Alexander Clouter Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: add support for gzip/bzip2/lzma compressed kernel images Message-ID: <20090810135521.GA27737@linux-mips.org> References: <1249757707-8876-1-git-send-email-wuzhangjin@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 23879 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 10:36:46PM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote: > As a side note, I would personally leave the DEBUG non-optional and > turned on as it all disappears at runtime anyway, but I'm no kernel > developer :) Printing is hardware specific; the debug code will need to be changed for practically every MIPS platform on the planet, so I'm not too fond of the idea unless somebody comes up with a cleaner infrastructure to do so. Unfortunately we're not setup very well to do configuration detection etc. in that debug code without adding tons of baggage. Ralf