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Date:      Sat, 16 Jan 1999 19:56:39 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys bus.h src/sys/kern subr_bus.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9901161944000.9625-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
In-Reply-To: <199901161744.JAA24031@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Doug Rabson wrote:

> dfr         1999/01/16 09:44:09 PST
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/sys              bus.h 
>     sys/kern             subr_bus.c 
>   Log:
>   A few small improvements to the bus code:
>   
>   * A function device_printf() to make pretty-printing driver messages easier.

While you're at it... I think it would be nice if the probe messages were
printed in some orderly fashion (e.g. like SCO does it)., instead of the
current mess. Someone even said that a person who saw FreeBSD booting for
the first time was scared that something broke... :-). But, seriously,
how about reformatting the probe messages to something like this:

Driver Unit Bus Irq Drq IOport Maddr   Msize Description
------+----+---+---+---+------+-------+-----+----------------------------
 ed     0   ISA  5   -  0x300  0xd8000  ---   NE2000-compat Ethernet card
 fdc    0   ISA  6   2  0x3f0    ---    ---   Floppy drive controller

etc, etc, with more details available on request (i.e. boot: -v). This
should give a much better first-time impression...

Andrzej Bialecki

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