[U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: mxs: tools: Add support for verbose and silent boot progress flags

[Marek Vasut]

On Thursday, October 09, 2014 at 12:29:10 AM, Alexey Ignatov wrote:
> 2014-10-09 2:10 GMT+04:00 Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>:
> > On Wednesday, October 08, 2014 at 10:49:38 PM, Alexey Ignatov wrote:
> >> mkimage -T mxs now support new flags in config file:
> >> NODISPLAYPROGRESS - makes boot silent
> > 
> > Please make this the other way -- that is, add flag to make the display
> > not- silent. What does this mean anyway?
> 
> Default behaviour of current MXS booting is to print HTLLCHTLLC
> characters when before usual uboot output - it is a feature to debug
> early boot stages, signatures checking, etc. Negation here to not
> break default behaviour

That's OK, you can just patch the arch/arm/cpu/arm926ejs/mxs/mxsimage*cfg to 
keep the behavior intact.

> >> VERBOSEPROGRESS - makes boot progress display more verbose
> > 
> > And how is the above different from this new flag?
> 
> I'm not really sure what this does (I haven't seen any differences
> with this flag on and off), but
> http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SbFileFormat mentions existence of this
> bit. Unfortunately, Freescale documentation is not full and a bit hard
> to search and use :(

Do we need this at all then ?

> > Please document those flags in doc/README.mxsimage too.
> > The code looks mostly OK, thanks !
> 
> Thank you for comments, I'll add documentation, fix DISPLAYPROGRESS
> and post a v2 of the patch.

Thanks!

Best regards,
Marek Vasut