Dear Timur Tabi,
In message 4E5F9C8D.3080503@freescale.com you wrote:
Wolfgang Denk wrote:
But you are right - I'd much rather see this printed for example as part of the "bdinfo" command than with the regular boot messages.
Recently, we've been adding boards that have CONFIG_PCI_SCAN_SHOW defined. Are you saying that we should not be doing that? That adds a lot more text than my patch does.
Yes, that's what I'm sayin. All this "useful" information should be available easily to everybody who is interested in it - no boubt of that. But it shoudld NOT be printed on each and every boot.
Kumar, are you okay with not displaying the address map size at all during boot time? If we bury this information in the 'bdinfo' command, we're going to have even more confusion as to which U-Boot we're booting.
What sort of "confusion" do you have? I see two situations: in 99.99% of all cases U-Boot is just a means to boot an OS, and nobody cares a bit about the actual U-Boot output, as long as the OS is runnign after a few seconds, and rather sooner than later. For a few use cases where developers are working on a board, they might wonder which state a board is in - then itis very useful to have a command to display this information any time they are interested in it - even without having to reboot the system.
It is actually pretty silly to print certain interesting information only at boot time.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk