From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 26 12:36: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail11.speakeasy.net (mail11.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65B1437B41A for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:36:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 28057 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2001 20:36:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail11.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 26 Nov 2001 20:36:26 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011126212545.A13597@gvr.gvr.org> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:36:01 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Guido van Rooij Subject: RE: review: single step thoruggh the probe messages Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 26-Nov-01 Guido van Rooij wrote: > Attached some patches that add a -p functionality to the boot process. > If booting with -p, every line printed during probing happens only > after one presses a key. > > This was usefull to see the probe messages of a system that completely > hung (read: no scroll-back functionslity left) after probing. I would call the variable name 'console_pausing' or some such, rather than cninit_notyetfinished to better explain what the variable does. > -Guido -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message