Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 13:14:04 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Fafa Hafiz Krantz <fteg@london.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A beautiful dmesg! Maybe one day? Message-ID: <20050506181404.GG49336@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20050506125729.DF5D94BEAD@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20050506125729.DF5D94BEAD@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com>
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In the last episode (May 06), Fafa Hafiz Krantz said: > For you all meticulous cats out there, here's how I hope that > FreeBSD's dmesg one day can look like. This is merely a > beautification that would make more people go "wow, cool" and it > doesn't deprive FreeBSD of its UNIX heritage. > > Perhaps someone out there can help me implement these changes? I have > a lot more suggestions for ASCII redesigns, so let me know! > > ata0: Attached to port 0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa0 > ata1: Attached to port 0x376,0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa0 > atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042), at port 0x64,0x60 on isa0 It's easy enough to change the format string in subr_bus.c:device_print_prettyname() to pad out the devicename. However, you may prefer to just put up a splash screen (see the splash manpage), so the user doesn't even see the kernel messages at all. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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