From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 30 12:30:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA02679 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:30:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA02659 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:30:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA24845; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 21:24:43 +0200 (CEST) To: Chuck Robey cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: comment about verbose booting In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 30 Sep 1998 13:51:46 EDT." Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 21:24:43 +0200 Message-ID: <24843.907183483@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Chuck Robe y writes: >I notice that booting messages are made very terse, which for regular >usage is normal and reasonable. What bothers me is, when I specifically >ask for verbose booting (using the -v argument on booting) and I really >want the results, most often for later viewing via dmesg, there is >little if any difference in what comes out. What comes extra with bootverbose is what somebody found useful at some point in time. If your're asking me, the identification of the VGA chips is something which should be killed, it doesn't belong in the kernel. You can do that from userland, there is no need to stuff potentially unlimited number of ascii-strings into the kernel, in particular considering that it doesn't use them after having printed one of them at boot. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message