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

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Message-ID: <46573CE4.8080300@zytor.com>
Date:	Fri, 25 May 2007 12:45:40 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Ben Collins <ben.collins@...ntu.com>
CC:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	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

Ben Collins wrote:
> 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 :)
> 

Worse than that, it's harmful.

"Clean look" means "undebuggable."

	-hpa
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