From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 6 19:20:23 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 820D916A4D6 for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 19:20:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com (webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com [205.158.62.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47BAC43D9F for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 19:20:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fteg@london.com) Received: from unknown (unknown [192.168.9.180])ED1C018001D2 for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 19:20:22 +0000 (GMT) X-OB-Received: from unknown (205.158.62.49) by wfilter.us4.outblaze.com; 6 May 2005 19:20:22 -0000 Received: by ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A45F64BEAE; Fri, 6 May 2005 19:20:22 +0000 (GMT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [213.187.181.70] by ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com with http for fteg@london.com; Fri, 06 May 2005 14:20:22 -0500 From: "Fafa Hafiz Krantz" To: "Warner Losh" , dnelson@allantgroup.com Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 14:20:22 -0500 X-Originating-Ip: 213.187.181.70 X-Originating-Server: ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com Message-Id: <20050506192022.A45F64BEAE@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> cc: arch@freebsd.org cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A beautiful dmesg! Maybe one day? X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 19:20:23 -0000 Hello Mr. Nelson and Mr. Losh! > It's easy enough to change the format string in > subr_bus.c:device_print_prettyname() to pad out the devicename. I am not qualified to do this. I wish I were. How about you guys? :) =20 > However, you may prefer to just put up a splash screen (see the=20 > splash manpage), so the user doesn't even see the kernel messages > at all. We can't just forget about it and pray for it to go away. This is an aesthetic violation to FreeBSD's professional image, that is considered to be more important now than ever. Now that we have logo and website design competitions going to completely revamp of the FreeBSD of the 70s, perhaps it's also time to update the ASCII design of this system? > Many of his suggestions are subtle changes to the probe messages in > addition to the format string. >=20 > Warner Indeed they are subtle. But it's more like removing zits. With laser or whatever. :) -- Fafa Hafiz Krantz Research Designer @ http://www.home.no/barbershop Enlightened @ http://www.home.no/barbershop/smart/sharon.pdf --=20 ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm