From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: be less annoying on boot
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:51:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080927185121.GA18359@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080927185027.GB17867@elte.hu>
(Cc: added. Mail-Followup-To is evil.)
* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> * 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-27 18:51 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
2008-09-27 18:51 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
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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