Re: [PATCH 2/2] Honor 'quiet' command line option in real mode boot decompressor.

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
>> You know... we already have a command-line parser in the real-mode part 
>> of the boot code, and it already extracts the "quiet" option: we should 
>> be able to do this by passing a bit in "loadflags" (bit 5 suggested.)
> 
> Hmm, as far as I understand the boot code, the decompressor consists of
> just head_32/64.S and misc.c plus the #included inflate.c and the
> compressed image in piggy.o.  In this environment there is no command
> line parser, it's only available once the image has been decompressed.

> Or are you suggesting parsing the "quiet" option in the bootloader and
> then setting the loadflags bit from there?  That's certainly doable, and
> I can update grub accordingly, but just parsing the command line seems
> like a simple, more local fix.  I don't have a strong preference,
> though.

I think you're missing something: the decompressor is the *second stage* 
of the boot code; the first stage is the real-mode code (arch/x86/boot). 
  I'm suggesting passing the flag from the real-mode code to the 
decompressor, not from the boot loader (in the common case.)

	-hpa