Re: [PATCH 2/2] Honor 'quiet' command line option in real mode boot decompressor.

["Kristian Høgsberg" <krh@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 11:43 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> > This patch lets the early real mode decompressor parse the kernel
> > command line and look for the 'quiet' option.  When 'quiet' is passed
> > we suppress the "Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done." messages.
> > 
> > This is in line with how the rest of the kernel suppresses informational
> > debug spew when quiet is given.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
> 
> You know... we already have a command-line parser in the real-mode part 
> of the boot code, and it already extracts the "quiet" option: we should 
> be able to do this by passing a bit in "loadflags" (bit 5 suggested.)

Hmm, as far as I understand the boot code, the decompressor consists of
just head_32/64.S and misc.c plus the #included inflate.c and the
compressed image in piggy.o.  In this environment there is no command
line parser, it's only available once the image has been decompressed.

Or are you suggesting parsing the "quiet" option in the bootloader and
then setting the loadflags bit from there?  That's certainly doable, and
I can update grub accordingly, but just parsing the command line seems
like a simple, more local fix.  I don't have a strong preference,
though.

cheers,
Kristian