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Date:      Tue, 04 Mar 1997 02:13:54 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org, gpalmer@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa clock.c 
Message-ID:  <199703041013.CAA12868@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Mar 1997 20:58:25 %2B1100." <199703040958.UAA03727@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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>>gpalmer     97/03/04 01:24:03
>>
>>  Modified:    sys/i386/isa  clock.c
>>  Log:
>>  Split the rather long and line-wrapping clock probe messages on boot.
>>  (2.2?)
>>  
>>  Submitted by:	Mathew Dood <winter@jurai.net>
>
>Arrgh.  The clock calibration messages were carefully phrased to provide
>complete information on one for all paths through the code.  Formatting
>them on one line is particularly useful with option CLK_CALIBRATION_LOOP
>and boot flag -v.  Then the calibration is repeated until you hit a key,
>and printing one line per call gives a readable tabular format.  This was
>broken in rev.1.60, fixed in rev.1.71 and is now broken again.

   The clock calibration line should not be emitted unless bootverbose is
specified. It is meaningless to most people and is just more cruft to fill
up the message buffer.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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