[flashrom] [RFC] Output and progress bars

[Uwe Hermann]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 06:49:44AM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> one thing to keep in mind: the limiting factor on progress on flashing
> 1024 nodes at a time was the printout of the "current address" being
> flashed. I had to turn that off or a 30-second task could take much,
> much longer.
> 
> So I like the idea of being able to optionally disable the progress bar.

Yep, too fast progress bar printing is also a problem on serial
sometimes, it even caused some flashing to reproducibly fail for me,
until I decreased the amount of stuff printed on the serial port.


Uwe.
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