Re: [PATCH 1/6] i386/x86_64: Allow disabling the putstr's from compressedboot wrapper

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ben Collins wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 16:28 -0700, 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.
> 
> Truth be told, I'd much rather just remove the informational pustr's and
> leave the error ones enabled. If it's acceptable, I can just remove
> those lines, or make them only work with -DDEBUG.

The problem with that is you don't have any idea how far a boot
proceeded before a hang.  That's actually a very important piece of
information.

	-hpa
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