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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ARM: Add "verbose" parameter for start_linux procedure
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:16:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130710131618.GF516@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130710125236.GE29932@pengutronix.de>

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 02:52:36PM +0200, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:00:39AM +0400, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> > This patch will make a normal booting more silent.
> 
> Why? Booting the kernel is the most important task for barebox. Why
> shouldn't we see a few lines about what is actually happening here by
> default.
> 
> If you really want no output then introduce a 'quiet' option.

I think we really need different verbosity levels. standard would be

- print commandline
- print which kernel image is started
- print which devicetree (if any) is used

There's more I'd like to output optionally, but it's also interesting to
output less in some cases.

Sascha

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-10 13:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-10  7:00 Alexander Shiyan
2013-07-10  7:00 ` [PATCH 2/3] ARM: Use armlinux_bootparams address for DTB Alexander Shiyan
2013-07-10  7:00 ` [PATCH 3/3] mfd: syscon: Replace dev_info with dev_dbg for print used region Alexander Shiyan
2013-07-10 12:52 ` [PATCH 1/3] ARM: Add "verbose" parameter for start_linux procedure Michael Olbrich
2013-07-10 13:16   ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2013-07-10 15:13     ` Alexander Shiyan
2013-07-11  6:31       ` Sascha Hauer
2013-07-11  7:38         ` Alexander Shiyan

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