From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.lixom.net (lixom.net [66.141.50.11]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C72FBDDE32 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 10:55:43 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 18:03:26 -0600 To: Timur Tabi Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update udbg_progress() to display the integer Message-ID: <20070207000326.GA26024@lixom.net> References: <11707051151024-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <20070206013051.GA15525@lixom.net> <45C90A6E.3040302@freescale.com> <17865.2853.132102.769702@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1170805102.2620.264.camel@localhost.localdomain> <0C529499-B766-4D3A-8340-361BB1B461D3@kernel.crashing.org> <45C9151E.70201@freescale.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <45C9151E.70201@freescale.com> From: olof@lixom.net (Olof Johansson) Cc: Paul Mackerras , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 05:54:06PM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote: > Kumar Gala wrote: > > >I'm with Ben on this. I'm not aware of any in tree user that just > >doesn't print this stuff out to a console port. The concept is nice, > >but does anyone really use it? > > I just ran a quick test on an 8349 board, and it appears that everywhere > ppc_md.progress() is called, printk() works, too. > > Is there any platform where ppc_md.progress() does something different than > printk()? Is there any point in the boot process where ppc_md.progress() > works but printk() doesn't? On some IBM machines the progress will also print the status on the hardware maintenance console's status line for the partition/machine in question. -Olof