From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:48:06 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/7] Expand POST memory test to support arch-depended implementation. In-Reply-To: <20100830144648.10446b6b@schlenkerla.am.freescale.net> References: <1282944356-4020-1-git-send-email-yorksun@freescale.com> <1282944356-4020-2-git-send-email-yorksun@freescale.com> <20100829085647.D5FCE157D7D@gemini.denx.de> <20100830144648.10446b6b@schlenkerla.am.freescale.net> Message-ID: <20100902074806.86369153781@gemini.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dear Scott Wood, In message <20100830144648.10446b6b@schlenkerla.am.freescale.net> you wrote: > > > POST is supposed to be an automatic, unmonitored functionality. > > Results are suposed to be reported through a mechanism compatible to > > Linux' syslog system. > > > > There is no place for progress indicators here. > > Why did you insist that he use the POST subsystem if you don't consider > it appropriate for what he's doing? But I do consider it appropriate for the purpose; I just don't like what the patch added. > Or is it your opinion that it's absolutely useless to have a progress > indicator on a memory test[1], or that such things have no place > anywhere in U-Boot? I do not think that progress indicators are useless. But I consider this to be a separate set oif changes, that should be split into a separate commit. And if we add such progress indicators, then we have to make sure it integrates well with existing use. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de I have yet to add the ESP-driver to the kernel to read the mind of the user... - Linus Torvalds in