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 better as well. Especially the > resulting output after the calibration is finished looks better on > the "normal" terminal: > > DRAM: 256 MB (original version) > > instead of: > > DRAM: Auto calibration: ..........256 MB (your new version) 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 that may be indications for problems; also it clearly shows where we have to wait too long, i. e. where optimi- zations are needed. > I understand that the spinning wheel is not optimal for logfiles, but for the > normal usage it just looks nicer for my taste. So I would prefer to stay with > the spinning wheel, but if you decide that the 4xx DDR2 calibration mustn't > use this, then let's apply your patch for the cpu/ppc4xx files. 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). For this purpose, the row of dots is IMHO more useful than the spinning wheel. Assuming my understanding is correct (is it?), then we could fix this now as well. BTW: I've added some statements to the documentation to deprecate control sequences on the console - see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/DesignPrinciples 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] He'd heard her use that sweet, innocent tone of voice before. It meant that, pretty soon, there was going to be trouble. - Terry Pratchett, _Truckers_ _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
