Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH PPC_4xx V3] Print simple row of dots instead of spinning wheel

2008-10-31 Thread Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
On 13:06 Fri 31 Oct , Stefan Roese wrote: > Hi Wolfgang, > > On Friday 31 October 2008, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > > > It is my understanding that a rework of this code is under way which > > > > will avoid the long delay for the standard boot sequence (and only > > > > need it for board bri

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH PPC_4xx V3] Print simple row of dots instead of spinning wheel

2008-10-31 Thread Stefan Roese
Hi Wolfgang, On Friday 31 October 2008, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > > It is my understanding that a rework of this code is under way which > > > will avoid the long delay for the standard boot sequence (and only > > > need it for board bringup or intentional recalibration). > > > > Are you talk

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH PPC_4xx V3] Print simple row of dots instead of spinning wheel

2008-10-31 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Stefan Roese, In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > > It is my understanding that a rework of this code is under way which > > will avoid the long delay for the standard boot sequence (and only > > need it for board bringup or intentional recalibration). > > Are you talking ab

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH PPC_4xx V3] Print simple row of dots instead of spinning wheel

2008-10-31 Thread Stefan Roese
Hi Wolfgang, On Friday 31 October 2008, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Of course the end result looks better. There is no doubt about that. > But it has disadvantages, too. With the row of dots you can easily > see how long you've been waiting - this visualizes variations in > timing behaviour

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH PPC_4xx V3] Print simple row of dots instead of spinning wheel

2008-10-31 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Stefan, In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > > Did you come to a decision about this patch? > > Matthias already did send a NAK for the esd boards (on Monday). OK - it's my fault that I missed this when the code was added :-( > I have to admit that I like the spinning wheel bette

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH PPC_4xx V3] Print simple row of dots instead of spinning wheel

2008-10-31 Thread Stefan Roese
Hi Wolfgang, On Friday 31 October 2008, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Stefan & Matthias, > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > Replace the "spinning wheel" eye candy by printing a simple row of > > dots. This avoids problems with control charactersin log files etc. > > > > Also, it sav

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH PPC_4xx V3] Print simple row of dots instead of spinning wheel

2008-10-30 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Stefan & Matthias, In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Replace the "spinning wheel" eye candy by printing a simple row of > dots. This avoids problems with control charactersin log files etc. > > Also, it saves a few bytes. > > Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Did

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH PPC_4xx V3] Print simple row of dots instead of spinning wheel

2008-10-28 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Matthias, In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Stefan Roese wrote: > > On Thursday 23 October 2008, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > Replace the "spinning wheel" eye candy by printing a simple row of > > dots. This avoids problems with control charactersin log files etc. > > > > Also, it saves a few byt

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH PPC_4xx V3] Print simple row of dots instead of spinning wheel

2008-10-27 Thread Matthias Fuchs
Hi Wolfgang, please do not remove the spinning cursor from the 'esd' files. a) Changing this will trigger some documentation update processes which I do not like :-) b) Your patch results in 10 dots per second. Sometimes the touched boards stay a long time in the waiting states and I want to keep

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH PPC_4xx V3] Print simple row of dots instead of spinning wheel

2008-10-23 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Stefan, In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > We need the ACK from esd (Matthias) for this esd specific change. He is on > vacation right now. I suggest that you split this patch so that we can apply > the ppc4xx specific part directly. Let's just wait until he's back from vacatio

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH PPC_4xx V3] Print simple row of dots instead of spinning wheel

2008-10-23 Thread Stefan Roese
Hi Wolfgang, On Thursday 23 October 2008, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Replace the "spinning wheel" eye candy by printing a simple row of > dots. This avoids problems with control charactersin log files etc. > > Also, it saves a few bytes. > > Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > H