* Du, Changbin <changbin...@intel.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 11:20:29AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * changbin...@intel.com <changbin...@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Changbin Du <changbin...@intel.com>
> > >
> > > The build message for fdimage/isoimage are pretty unstructured. The raw
> > > shell command blocks are printed. We can improve them as regular build
> > > system messages. Besides, writing commands in a shell script is much more
> > > easy than in a Makefile.
> > >
> > > See Ingo's suggestion here https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/10/31/124.
> > >
> > > This patch factors out the commands used for fdimage/isoimage generation
> > > from arch/x86/boot/Makefile to a new script arch/x86/boot/genimage.sh.
> > > Then it adds the new kbuild command 'genimage' which invokes the new
> > > script.
> > > All fdimages/isoimage files are now generated by a call to 'genimage' with
> > > different parameters.
> > >
> > > Now 'make isoimage' becomes:
> > > ...
> > > Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready (#30)
> > > GENIMAGE arch/x86/boot/image.iso
> > > Size of boot image is 4 sectors -> No emulation
> > > 15.37% done, estimate finish Sun Nov 5 23:36:57 2017
> > > 30.68% done, estimate finish Sun Nov 5 23:36:57 2017
> > > 46.04% done, estimate finish Sun Nov 5 23:36:57 2017
> > > 61.35% done, estimate finish Sun Nov 5 23:36:57 2017
> > > 76.69% done, estimate finish Sun Nov 5 23:36:57 2017
> > > 92.00% done, estimate finish Sun Nov 5 23:36:57 2017
> > > Total translation table size: 2048
> > > Total rockridge attributes bytes: 659
> > > Total directory bytes: 0
> > > Path table size(bytes): 10
> > > Max brk space used 0
> > > 32608 extents written (63 MB)
> > > Kernel: arch/x86/boot/image.iso is ready
> >
> > Could we please also do another patch, to make it emit only this by default:
> >
> > > GENIMAGE arch/x86/boot/image.iso
> >
> > None of the other messages really matter to the user.
> >
> > Maybe emit them when building with V=1 - but none of that info is really
> > interesting IMHO.
> >
> Ingo, do you mean that omit below messages?
> Size of boot image is 4 sectors -> No emulation
> 15.37% done, estimate finish Sun Nov 5 23:36:57 2017
> ...
> 32608 extents written (63 MB)
Yes, and all the other unnecessary verbosity.
> These are printed by mkisofs. How about just add '-quite' parameter to it?
Yes, or redirect it to /dev/null or any other solution.
Thanks,
Ingo
