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 16:28:18 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
CC:	Ben Collins <ben.collins@...ntu.com>,
	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

Jesse Barnes wrote:
> 
> But how often do you have to debug bootloader or compressed boot code?  In 
> fact, most debug output like this isn't very useful after some initial 
> debugging, so we usually take it out.  I'm not sure why this would be any 
> different...
> 

You're asking me this?

I get to hear all the time about some new platform -- sometimes exotic,
sometimes not -- breaking early boot.

	-hpa
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