On Friday, May 25, 2007 4:28:18 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.
Right, but you're special that way. And moreover, you would know how to add
such debug statements as needed. But is this output something we really need
enabled unconditionally for everyone?
I personally don't care that much, aside from the feeling that we have way too
many printks in general...
Jesse
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