linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] i386/x86_64: Allow disabling the putstr's from compressed boot wrapper

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Date:	Fri, 25 May 2007 08:52:23 -0400
From:	Ben Collins <ben.collins@...ntu.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Ben Collins <bcollins@...ntu.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] i386/x86_64: Allow disabling the putstr's from
	compressed boot wrapper

On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 13:33 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Ben Collins <bcollins@...ntu.com> writes:
> 
> Why? 

Because there's no other way to make the kernel totally quiet. We've
been patching this out so that the boot sequence has that "clean look".

Other than that, it's useless :)

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