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    SubjectRe: [PATCH -v3 2/2] x86: more early console output from compressed/misc.c
    On 08/02/2010 10:49 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
    > On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 02:18:39AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
    >>
    >> will get
    >>
    >> |Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done.
    >> |Booting the kernel.
    >>
    >> in serial console.
    >>
    >> reuse code from arch/x86/boot/
    >> and we can use printf if needed
    >>
    >> -v2: define BOOT_BOOT_H to avoid include boot.h
    >> -v3: early_serial_base need to be static in misc.c ?
    >>
    >> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
    >>
    >> ---
    >> arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
    >> arch/x86/boot/main.c | 6 +--
    >> 2 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
    >>
    >
    > It seems eventually we just add ~80 lines of code in compare with what we had before,
    > just to print "Decompressing..." by serial line. Not sure Yinghai if it worth
    > it. Though having printf that early might be quite useful for those who debugging
    > or developing new compressors/decompressors. If it would be small non-intrusive
    > patch I would both hands for it but now I simply don't know (to be fair mine
    > proposal based on your initial patch not better either ;)
    >

    Decompressing... is one thing, and if it was only that, I'd just suggest
    killing off the console I/O in boot/compressed. Getting an error
    message out when there is a decompression failure is another thing.

    Processing the command line a novo is somewhat painful, but it does deal
    better with bootloaders that use the 32-bit entry point by necessity
    (kexec, EFI) or due to sheer stupidity (Grub2).

    As such, I think it's a worthwhile addition, as long as the source code
    can be cleanly shared with the boot/ directory.

    -hpa



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