[arch-general] quiet kernel parameter

[Tom Gundersen]

On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 6:07 AM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony at xtfx.me> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Meyithi <mail at meyithi.com> wrote:
>>> It appears that the quiet kernel parameter also sets a quiet flag in
>>> Syslinux as well, which is doing something horrible to early framebuffers.
>>>  As to the original question, it seems that "quiet" and "loglevel=4" are
>>> identical indeed, unless you use Syslinux.
>>
>> For what it's worth: I'm using syslinux with quiet without seeing this
>> problem (using i915).
>>
>> Also, the last kernel commit I pointed to in a previous email shows a
>> place in the boot code where "quiet" is indeed different from
>> "loglevel=4", just in case someone came across a different problem.
>
> i finally got around to trying this; it eliminated the "white box"
> effect for me, on these two machines anyway (nvidia/radeon)

Sorry, what did you try? Revert the commit?

-t