From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Sep 11 16:57:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay.eunet.no (mail-relay.eunet.no [193.71.71.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B96F237B42C; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:57:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from login-1.eunet.no (login-1.eunet.no [193.75.110.2]) by mail-relay.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.9.3/GN) with ESMTP id BAA89671; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 01:57:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from localhost (mbendiks@localhost) by login-1.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA78528; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 01:57:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) X-Authentication-Warning: login-1.eunet.no: mbendiks owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 01:57:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen To: Mike Smith Cc: mjacob@feral.com, Poul-Henning Kamp , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device probing... In-Reply-To: <200009111936.MAA14055@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > The biggest one that's left is that a lot of drivers will end up printing > things in interrupt context, leading to *incredibly* messy console > output. We'll need a cleaner way of presenting driver messages. Couldn't this be resolved by adding a console buffer which you could spool lines to, rather than printing them directly? The buffer would then sort a certain number of lines at a time, and print them grouped by driver. Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message