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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] Honor 'quiet' command line option in real mode boot decompressor.
Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> This patch lets the early real mode decompressor parse the kernel
> command line and look for the 'quiet' option. When 'quiet' is passed
> we suppress the "Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done." messages.
>
> This is in line with how the rest of the kernel suppresses informational
> debug spew when quiet is given.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>

You know... we already have a command-line parser in the real-mode part
of the boot code, and it already extracts the "quiet" option: we should
be able to do this by passing a bit in "loadflags" (bit 5 suggested.)
This would have the additional benefit of making it really easy for
hypervisors that don't support writing to the screen at all to disable
those messages.

What do you think?

-hpa
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