Dear Scott Wood,
In message <20100830144648.10446...@schlenkerla.am.freescale.net> you wrote:
>
> > POST is supposed to be an automatic, unmonitored functionality.
> > Results are suposed to be reported through a mechanism compatible to
> > Linux' syslog system.
> >
> > There is no place for progress indicators here.
>
> Why did you insist that he use the POST subsystem if you don't consider
> it appropriate for what he's doing?
But I do consider it appropriate for the purpose; I just don't like
what the patch added.
> Or is it your opinion that it's absolutely useless to have a progress
> indicator on a memory test[1], or that such things have no place
> anywhere in U-Boot?
I do not think that progress indicators are useless. But I consider
this to be a separate set oif changes, that should be split into a
separate commit. And if we add such progress indicators, then we have
to make sure it integrates well with existing use.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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