Syslinux - Dec 2004 - ISOLINUX users - debugging on by default?

I'm considering the suggestion which was raised before about turning the 
debugging messages on by default in isolinux, or specifically, not 
building the non-debugging-messages version in the standard distribution.

What do people think (especially distro maintainers?)

	-hpa

On Friday 17 December 2004 09:22, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I'm considering the suggestion which was raised before about turning
the
> debugging messages on by default in isolinux, or specifically, not
> building the non-debugging-messages version in the standard distribution.
>
> What do people think (especially distro maintainers?)
I think that's a good idea, as people who build ISO/SYSLINUX themselves will
certainly find some additional messages useful and maintainers won't have 
trouble turning it off. But I suggest documenting in the README file or 
isolinux.doc how to turn them off for the "normal" users.

How do you turn them on right now, -DDEBUG ? If so I'd make that a variable
at
the top of the Makefile, e.g.
ISOLINUXDEBUG=-DDEBUG
that the user can comment out.

Disclaimer: I only maintain a small semi-embedded in-house Linux distro with 
which we're doing our products... not a "big, full-featured
distro"
maintainer. And since we're only using SYSLINUX I'm not really affected 
currently ;-)

C'ya,
	Marc

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Yes, please turn it on by default. I'm already renaming isolinux-debug.bin
to isolinux.bin before using it. If you have the space in the critical file
(cdrom bootsector or isolinux.bin, or are they the same?) then add a message
suggestion to use Smart Boot Manager (+ webaddress at sourceforge).
Comboot module of SBM is available at:
http://fdos.org/bootdisks/autogen/btmgr-3.7-1.cbt.zip

I'm no Linux maintainer though..

regards,

Bernd Blaauw

FreeDOS distribution maintainer.


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On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I'm considering the suggestion which was raised before about turning
the
> debugging messages on by default in isolinux, or specifically, not building
> the non-debugging-messages version in the standard distribution.
> 
> What do people think (especially distro maintainers?)
I wouldn't mind, as longs as it stays configurable.

IMO the gain is minimal, though. With the spread of WinXP recent BIOSes 
get the non-emulation boot method righ.


Steffen