Dear Lee Jones, In message <20121122101433.ga4...@gmail.com> you wrote: > Let's try to move this forward.
Actually you don't. You insist on not changing anything on your side, and ask others to adapt to it. > Okay, to summarise so far: > > 1. Bootloader and kernel mechanisms should be the same > > So putting bootloader tracepoints in the bootlog and the kernel's > in an internal data structure is not acceptable, as it would add > too much extra overhead to link them together and parse. OK. But this appears a new requirement - your original implementation did not bother about this, using ATAGs here and somethign else there... > 2. The kernel bootlog is not the correct place for tracepoints > > If we were to adhere to point No1 and bootloader & kernel > entries would be placed into the bootlog; no self respecting > kernel engineer/maintainer will allow 100's of spurious > tracepoint entries in the kernel log, regardless of log level. I wonder about the self-assuredness you speak for all of them. Has this been dicussed in full context before? > Actually, putting it in DT has lots of advantages. 1) DT works > cross-architecture and cross-platform, so your architecture > independent box is inherently ticked 2) DT already carries > non-hardware specific information such as the kernel cmdline. > I don't see how adding <10 (but would more likely to be 2-3) > tracepoint entries would completely break convention. We can > either get the kernel driver to scrub the entries if you'd be > that offended by keeping them in. Hm... in accordance to No. 1 above your kernel code will add new entries to the device tree while the kernel is booting? So instead of "adding <10" it now will be adding "100's of spurious tracepoint entries" to the DT? Are you sure this is a good idea? [Not considering if it's actually possible.] But then, if you drop item 1, then what's wrong with "<10 (but would more likely to be 2-3)" additional log messages? 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: w...@denx.de I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? - Benjamin Disraeli _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
