[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Add flash programming counter]

[Jerry Van Baren <gerald.vanbaren@ge.com>]

Stefan Roese wrote:
> On Friday 07 March 2008, Clemens Koller wrote:
>> ACK from my side to Jerry's version. Maybe a quite long fixed length (~40
>> characters) bar would also be reasonable and the dot-time scaled to fit the
>> progress.
>>
>> A progress bar needs IMO two informations:
>> - that it's still working... so a quite frequent output of something to
>> keep me calm. - how long it will take... so I know how much time I will
>> have to get the next cup of coffee to keep me tickin'.
>>
>> Perfect (= close to overkill, I know) would be IMO an additional output
>> like:
>>
>> Programming Flash from 0xc0ldbeef to 0xc0ldcafe takes 112s.
>> .................                                       |
>>
>> So, I don't need to estimate from the first dots how long it will take to
>> complete.
> 
> I don't think printing the programming time/speed at beginning of the 
> operation is doable. At least not without bigger changes. But an output at 
> end of the operation like:
> 
> Wrote 512kB in 5.4 seconds (94,8 kB/s)
> 
> would be nice. This way the developer could see, if the interface to the FLASH 
> chips is optimized. But I think this is overkill too. Let's concentrate on a 
> clean progress bar with a fixed length.
> 
> Patches welcome. :)
> 
> Best regards,
> Stefan

All but the timing part ;-)
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/37626>

Best regards,
gvb