From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 14 22:34:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from slarti.muc.de (slarti.muc.de [193.149.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EDCFA152C4 for ; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 22:34:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhs@jhs.muc.de) Received: (qmail 19130 invoked from network); 15 Aug 1999 05:34:15 -0000 Received: from jhs.muc.de (193.149.49.84) by slarti.muc.de with SMTP; 15 Aug 1999 05:34:15 -0000 Received: from wall.jhs.no_domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jhs.muc.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA02141; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 14:20:06 GMT (envelope-from jhs@wall.jhs.no_domain) Message-Id: <199908141420.OAA02141@jhs.muc.de> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" Subject: Re: it's time... From: "Julian Stacey" Reply-To: "Julian Stacey" X-Net: jhs@muc.de jhs@freebsd.org www.jhs.muc.de www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ Organization: Vector Systems Ltd In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Aug 1999 01:29:32 EDT." Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 16:20:05 +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Matthew N. Dodd" wrote: > > Agreed. I like what I see there. Maybe it is time to hoist something > > like that into bus_subr.c > Lets define exactly what we want before we start our charge. > What should be printed? > device ID > attachment point > resource reservation > device additional > When should it be printed? > bootverbose levels? Years ago I provided diffs to the kernel boot to report some probes Before as well as after, so one could see which probe was about to hang, - more use than which probe was last to pass. Idea was rejected as some thought it was too verbose, but Nobody (me included) thought of having a bootverbose levels switch to hang on it on. ... Nice Idea ! Some Computer mags reccomend MS-* users to keep a boot flop for Linux or BSD, as we provide much more diagnostics than MS*, Before-probe-announcements would make it more valuable still. Imagine if the more competent of the MS crowd actually wanted to keep a FreeBSD boot floppy around :-) Julian Julian H. Stacey http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ Considering Linux ? Then also consider the 2000+ free packages for FreeBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message