[flashrom] [RFC] Output and progress bars

[Stefan Reinauer]

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 18.09.2009 20:28, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
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>> ron minnich wrote:
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>>     
>>> 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.
>   
Not necessarily... Just make sure it doesn't print more than a given
number of characters per block (no spinning wheels or some such) over
serial port.