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Message-ID: <465776CE.5070007@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 16:52:46 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: Ben Collins <ben.collins@...ntu.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 Ben Collins wrote: > 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. The problem with that is you don't have any idea how far a boot proceeded before a hang. That's actually a very important piece of information. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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