[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/8] Adding boottime support

Wolfgang Denk
2012-11-20T18:08:37Z

Dear Lee Jones,

In message <1353422034-28107-1-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> you wrote:
> In this patch-set we're attempting to add boottime measurement
> support to u-boot. A patch-set has already hit the kernel MLs
> which intends to solve the other half of the puzzle.
>
> This new tool allows an engineer to apply tags into key areas
> around the bootloader, which are then passed to the Linux
> kernel for processing and statistics analysis of full (bootloader
> + kernel) device booting.

tags into key areas around the boot loader?

Why do you reinvent the wheel, squarely this time? Why don't you
simply use a shared log buffer?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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