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

[Lee Jones]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> 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?

No, I didn't know it existed. Basically I've taken responsibility to
upstream someone else's driver. It's more of a kernel thing, but it
requires boottime information from u-boot too, as the intention is
to cover full system booting, rather than the kernel-only tracing
mechanisms which already exist.

I've just taken a look at show_boot_process() though. It doesn't
appear to be suitable for what we require. Each tag needs to be
individually identifiable, and I'm not sure how you would achieve
this if we were to call back into a single function which would do
the tagging.

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Lee Jones
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