Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 19:03:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.ORG>, 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.4.01.9901161902230.31203-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9901161944000.9625-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > 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... I'm not sure how popular this will be. Driver writers seem to like printing all kinds of stuff during probe/attach. Perhaps its better to just hide the lot behind a nice splash screen :-). -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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