[flashrom] [RFC] Output and progress bars

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Fri Sep 18 20:34:45 CEST 2009


On 18.09.2009 20:28, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> 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.
>>   
>>     
> I want to add to this: We've had cases where printing too much output
> would mess with the timing (maximum time allowed until a block has to be
> completely written) due to heavy output of "current addresses" over a
> serial line. Not only would it take several hours to finish but the
> result was a few dozen non-booting systems. Very frustrating.
>   

So the consensus is to make progress bars (or any other progress
printing) off by default? Great.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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