[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/7] Expand POST memory test to support arch-depended implementation.

[Scott Wood]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:56:47 +0200
Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:

> Dear York Sun,
> 
> In message <1282944356-4020-2-git-send-email-yorksun at freescale.com> you wrote:
> > Add progress indicator for slow test. It is useful when the testing
> > takes too longer to finish. The indicator is reused from flash
> > programming.
> > 
> > Hwconfig is used to turn on slow test when not enabled by flag.
> 
> NAK.
> 
> 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?

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?

-Scott

[1] I don't care how automatic it is, if something is taking more than a few
seconds during boot, I'm going to be "monitoring" it as I sit there
twiddling my thumbs -- and if it takes that long, I'd rather it not be
automatic at all.