Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update udbg_progress() to display the integer

From: [email-masked] (Linas Vepstas)
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 15:59:57 -0600

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 06:04:11PM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Olof Johansson wrote:
> 
> > On some IBM machines the progress will also print the status on the hardware
> > maintenance console's status line for the partition/machine in question.
> 
> Ah, yes, the HMC.
> 
> Looking at the code, there doesn't appear to be much rhyme or reason as to when 
> ppc_md.progress() is called, but it is called from quite a few files.
> 
> Is there any reason why we can't just re-route printk() to HMC?

Yes.

The HMC progress display is the "same as" the LED's 
i.e. one line of 30 or 40 chars. Its enough to tell you 
the kernel version you've booted, or if the machine is
stuck in firmware. but that's about it. 

--linas