[U-Boot] [PATCH 4/8] boottime: Apply some key boottime tags into common code

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Lee Jones,

In message <20121121093647.GH28265@gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> > show_boot_progress() code? Did you consider using this instead? If
> > so, why did you not use it?
> 
> No, I didn't know it existed. Basically I've taken responsibility to
> upstream someone else's driver. It's more of a kernel thing, but it

This shouldbe considered a design fault.

Why do you need an extra driver when standard mechanisms exist that
provide exactly the needed funtionality?

> requires boottime information from u-boot too, as the intention is
> to cover full system booting, rather than the kernel-only tracing
> mechanisms which already exist.

But we can share a log buffer with Linux, both hence and back, so why
do you not simply use this feature?

> I've just taken a look at show_boot_process() though. It doesn't
> appear to be suitable for what we require. Each tag needs to be
> individually identifiable, and I'm not sure how you would achieve
> this if we were to call back into a single function which would do
> the tagging.

Each call takes an argument which is exactly used for such
identification purposes.  And you implementation can be mapped to
write syslog entries into a shared (with Linux) log buffer, so no
changes in Linux are needed.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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