Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 May 2008 11:43:27 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] Honor 'quiet' command line option in real mode boot decompressor. |
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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?
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