Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Boot messages (Was: Re: Ideas for v2.1) | Date | Tue, 11 Jun 1996 12:14:08 +0200 | From | Cees de Groot <> |
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tiensivu@pilot.msu.edu said: > o Making the below messages optional. These are nice for > distribution packages, but most people don't change their hardware > that often to make it worthwhile each time you boot-up.
> This processor honours the WP bit even when in supervisor mode. Good. > Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error > reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
IMO that's the only thing left that SCO does better: it just builds a small table on your monitor telling you that it detected your hardware and where it resides, and nothing else. I vote for suppressing _all_ this mess unless somebody boots with the ``verbose'' option. Something like:
bootmsg=silent - Say nothing bootmsg=default - Show a summary bootmsg=verbose - Show what it shows now
Summary could look like:
Proc 1: 486 (GENUINE INTEL) Memory: 24Mb mem, 23200k left, 256k cache PCI bus: <chipset info> Video: S3 <hardware info> SCSI: NCR <hardware info> bus 0 id 1 lun 0: CD-ROM Toshiba (scd0) bus 0 id 3 lun 0: DISK Seagate (sda) bus 0 id 5 lun 0: DISK Quantum (sdb) bus 0 id 6 lun 0: TAPE WangDAT (st0)
or something more tabular. All in all one line per hardware item detected, nothing more (and nothing less - I'd like to know that everything is still alive).
Kernel interface: depending on bootmsg level, printk is silenced (until, say, init is run); an extra call show_hardware() builds the summary table (or is converted to plain printk if bootmsg=verbose). -- Cees de Groot <C.deGroot@inter.NL.net> OpenLink Software, Inc.
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