> 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.