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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: be less annoying on boot
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:50:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080927185027.GB17867@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080925161300.GA17162@nostromo.devel.redhat.com>


* Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu) said: 
> > > (Alternatively, just remove them, of course...)
> > 
> > LOL :) Applied the commit below to tip/x86/debug, thanks Bill!
> 
> Does the 'kernel alive' right before it serve any purpose either?

that has some marginal use: it shows that we are past the really basic 
system setup code, we decompressed the kernel and entered protected mode 
with boot paging enabled.

we had bugs in the past where we'd hang/crash after GRUB starts us and 
before we reach this printk.

OTOH ... forcing it upon all users is strong. Feel free to send another 
patch that removes it.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-27 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-24 18:35 [PATCH] x86_64: be less annoying on boot Bill Nottingham
2008-09-25  9:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-25 16:13   ` Bill Nottingham
2008-09-27 18:50     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-09-27 18:51       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-27 19:11       ` dcg
2008-09-27 19:18         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-28 16:49           ` dcg
2008-09-29  8:06             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-28 16:53           ` Andi Kleen

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