[PATCH 1/3] ARM: Add "verbose" parameter for start_linux procedure

[Sascha Hauer]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 02:52:36PM +0200, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:00:39AM +0400, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> > This patch will make a normal booting more silent.
> 
> Why? Booting the kernel is the most important task for barebox. Why
> shouldn't we see a few lines about what is actually happening here by
> default.
> 
> If you really want no output then introduce a 'quiet' option.

I think we really need different verbosity levels. standard would be

- print commandline
- print which kernel image is started
- print which devicetree (if any) is used

There's more I'd like to output optionally, but it's also interesting to
output less in some cases.

Sascha

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