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Re: [PATCH] add a counter in grub_dprintf
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Marco Gerards |
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Re: [PATCH] add a counter in grub_dprintf |
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Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:08:01 +0200 |
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Robert Millan <address@hidden> writes:
> How about adding a counter to grub_dprintf to make it easy to instrument
> GRUB and find which are the bottlenecks in boot time?
>
> Sidenote: perhaps it'd be a good idea to conditionalize all grub_dprintf
> calls with #ifdef DEBUG to obtain a smaller core.img. It's not hard to
> ask a user to rebuild if dprintf is needed, and we can find non-ugly ways
> to do this without massive #ifdefs all over the code.
How about a configure time switch to *disable* dprintf. I prefer to
have it enabled by default. In that case distributions can create two
packages. One for normal use and one for debugging.
--
Marco