Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/boot: Add OPAL console to epapr wrappers

2016-06-27 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2016-06-27 at 16:51 +1000, oliver wrote: > None of this is useful to us since we get most of this information > from skiboot, but I'm not sure that's true for other platforms. The > kernel boot log is fairly noisy as-is so we don't gain much from > trimming. At the very least the other mess

Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/boot: Add OPAL console to epapr wrappers

2016-06-26 Thread oliver
On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Stewart Smith wrote: > Oliver O'Halloran writes: > One thing to think of is if we really need anything printed except the > error message. Out of these three lines of output (for a corrupted > zImage.epapr), only the last line gives any real information. > > 53434

Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/boot: Add OPAL console to epapr wrappers

2016-06-26 Thread Stewart Smith
Oliver O'Halloran writes: > This patch adds an OPAL console backend to the powerpc boot wrapper so > that decompression failures inside the wrapper can be reported to the > user. This is important since it typically indicates data corruption in > the firmware and other nasty things. > > Currently

[PATCH v2] powerpc/boot: Add OPAL console to epapr wrappers

2016-06-24 Thread Oliver O'Halloran
This patch adds an OPAL console backend to the powerpc boot wrapper so that decompression failures inside the wrapper can be reported to the user. This is important since it typically indicates data corruption in the firmware and other nasty things. Currently this only works when building a little