On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 03:33:36PM -0700, David Daney wrote: > On 06/24/2013 03:04 PM, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:52:23AM -0700, David Daney wrote: > >>On 06/23/2013 02:38 PM, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > >>>When booting a new board for the first time, the console is flooded with > >>>"Unknown board" messages. This is not really helpful. Board type is not > >>>going to change after the boot, so it's sufficient to print the warning > >>>only once. > >>> > >>>Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx> > >> > >>I don't think we need this patch. In 2/2 you add the board type for > >>the board you have, so you shouldn't be getting any messages, and > >>this is unneeded. > >> > >>I don't mind spamming people with all the messages, if people see > >>these messages, they have bigger problems than too many messages. > > > >I guess this patch can be dropped, but whoever tries to improve the > >support for the next new Octeon board will get annoyed by these same > >messages... > > I would hope that the "next new Octeon board" would have a > bootloader that supplies a device tree. That way most of this would > never be used, and there would be no messages. Yes, actually I was wondering if MIPS kernel could offer something similar to ARM's APPENDED_DTB, i.e. provide some mechanism to pass the dtb if the bootloader support is missing. A.
