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

[Stefan Roese]

Hi Wolfgang,

On Friday 31 October 2008, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Stefan & Matthias,
>
> In message <1224759565-1334-1-git-send-email-wd at denx.de> 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 <wd at denx.de>
>
> Did you come to a decision about this patch?

Matthias already did send a NAK for the esd boards (on Monday).

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)

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.

Best regards,
Stefan

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