[U-Boot] [PATCH 4/8] boottime: Apply some key boottime tags into common code

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue Nov 20 19:22:28 CET 2012


Dear Lee Jones,

In message <1353422034-28107-5-git-send-email-lee.jones at linaro.org> you wrote:
> Here we add boottime tags to the start of the main loop and just
> before the opportunity to break into the u-boot shell. This will
> provide a more verbose bootgraph when viewed within debugfs.

Assuming we would take this route - then why do we need to add new
boottime_tag() entries - is there anything wrong with the existing
show_boot_progress() code? Did you consider using this instead? If
so, why did you not use it?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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