Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 20:01:30 +0100 (CET) From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: abial@nask.pl, 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: <199901191901.UAA09951@ocean.campus.luth.se> In-Reply-To: <199901161928.OAA06210@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Jan 16, 99 02:28:13 pm"
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According to Garrett Wollman: > <<On Sat, 16 Jan 1999 19:56:39 +0100 (CET), Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> said: > > > 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 > > Gack! Most of that isn't even relevant to a modern device, and it > wastes far too much screen real estate. What's wrong with it? I mean, the exact format doesn't have to be exactly like that, but something along those lines, instead of screenfulls of useless messages every time you boot could really tidy the boot up, and look much nicer to newbies. Boot -v could print exactly what it does today. Something like this, maybe: Driver Type Bus Comments ------+---------------+---+----------------- ed0 Ethernet card ISA NE2000 compatible (IRQ 5, IO 0x300) fdc0 Floppy drive ISA da0 Harddrive PCI da1 CDROM drive PCI Plextor (No CDROM in drive) I don't really know, but I think the table-format might be nice for the normal boot. /Mikael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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