Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > On 18.09.2009 20:28, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > >> ron minnich wrote: >> >> >>> one thing to keep in mind: the limiting factor on progress on flashing >>> 1024 nodes at a time was the printout of the "current address" being >>> flashed. I had to turn that off or a 30-second task could take much, >>> much longer. >>> >>> >>> >> I want to add to this: We've had cases where printing too much output >> would mess with the timing (maximum time allowed until a block has to be >> completely written) due to heavy output of "current addresses" over a >> serial line. Not only would it take several hours to finish but the >> result was a few dozen non-booting systems. Very frustrating. >> >> > > So the consensus is to make progress bars (or any other progress > printing) off by default? Great. > Not necessarily... Just make sure it doesn't print more than a given number of characters per block (no spinning wheels or some such) over serial port.
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