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 <[email protected]> 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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