Messages in this thread | | | From | Robin Getz <> | Subject | Re: Boot Consoles question... | Date | Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:28:03 -0400 |
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On Fri 10 Jul 2009 06:28, Ingo Molnar pondered: > > * Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> wrote: > > > On Sat 4 Jul 2009 12:07, Robin Getz pondered: > > > On Sat 4 Jul 2009 06:29, Ingo Molnar pondered: > > > > Could be changed i guess ... but is it really an issue? > > > > > > It is just a change from "normal" (when the kernel has no boot > > > console). > > > > > > > One artifact > > > > could be manual scroll-back - it would perhaps be nice indeed to > > > > allow the scrollback to the top of the bootlog. > > > > > > Exactly. > > > > > > One of my thoughts (was since CON_PRINTBUFFER isn't used after > > > register_console()) - was for the CON_BOOT's CON_PRINTBUFFER flag to > > > control the clearing of the CON_PRINTBUFFER for the real console or > > > not... > > > > > > All early_printk consoles that I looked at have their > > > CON_PRINTBUFFER set. > > > > > > Which means that something like should do the trick -- allow people > > > who want > > > to override things to do so, and still have the today's setup work > > > as is... > > > > I guess no one liked that idea? > > No, this means no-one objected :)
Silence is consensus?
> > How about at least making sure that the real console gets a > > message that something is on the bootconsole? Right now the switch > > message: > > > > console handover:boot [early_shadow0] -> real [ttyBF0] > > > > only is printed on the bootconsole, not on the real console - so > > someone looking at the real console may not know there is anything > > on the boot console. They just think that things are missing... > > Mind sending a full (changelogged, titled, etc.) patch for the other > bit as well? It kind of overlaps this one but both make sense, > especially if people end up objecting against the more intrusive one > and it gets dropped/reverted ;-)
Will do - (as soon as I get my system up and running again - moved buildings, so still unpacking)...
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