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 19:50:53 -0400
From:	Ben Collins <ben.collins@...ntu.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, 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 16:28 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.

Truth be told, I'd much rather just remove the informational pustr's and
leave the error ones enabled. If it's acceptable, I can just remove
those lines, or make them only work with -DDEBUG.

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