From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 13:33:06 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 06/10] arm: Add CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO_LATE to display board info on LCD In-Reply-To: <1351813330-23741-6-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> References: <1351813330-23741-1-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> <1351813330-23741-6-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> Message-ID: <20121103123306.21D1D200255@gemini.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dear Simon Glass, In message <1351813330-23741-6-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> you wrote: > This option displays board info after stdio is running, so that it will > appear on the LCD. If it is displayed earlier, the board info will appear > on the serial console but not on the LCD. Note that this is intentional! We always want to have the output in the console as soon as possible. > +- CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO > + Display information about the board that U-Boot is running on > + when U-Boot starts up. Why do we need a config option for this? This being the default (and I request that this remains so!), you would have to touch _ALL_ existing board config files! > +- CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO_LATE > + Similar to the previous option, but display this information > + later, once stdio is running and output goes to the LCD, if > + present. This makes little sense to me. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de Each kiss is as the first. -- Miramanee, Kirk's wife, "The Paradise Syndrome", stardate 4842.6