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