From: Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: A beautiful dmesg! Maybe one day? Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 13:14:04 -0500
> In the last episode (May 06), Fafa Hafiz Krantz said: > > For you all meticulous cats out there, here's how I hope that > > FreeBSD's dmesg one day can look like. This is merely a > > beautification that would make more people go "wow, cool" and it > > doesn't deprive FreeBSD of its UNIX heritage. > > > > Perhaps someone out there can help me implement these changes? I have > > a lot more suggestions for ASCII redesigns, so let me know! > > > > ata0: Attached to port 0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa0 > > ata1: Attached to port 0x376,0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa0 > > atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042), at port 0x64,0x60 on isa0 > > It's easy enough to change the format string in > subr_bus.c:device_print_prettyname() to pad out the devicename. > However, you may prefer to just put up a splash screen (see the splash > manpage), so the user doesn't even see the kernel messages at all. Many of his suggestions are subtle changes to the probe messages in addition to the format string. Warner _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
