We as developers see things differently then the rest of the people :-) Our product is designed for IoT market and devices will be deployed in the field by technicians with just enough knowledge to use screwdriver and plug the power. They may interpret these messages a if there is something wrong with the device. This information completely irrelevant to them (and to anybody at the customer side) and can cause only confusion. The "quiet" option would address this issue but it not necessarily has to be the default.
-Dmitri ------ Original Message ------ From: "Andreas Reichel" <[email protected]> To: "Dmitri Toubelis" <[email protected]> Cc: "EFI Boot Guard" <[email protected]> Sent: 2018-02-05 5:26:59 AM Subject: Re: [feature request] Add "quiet" option >On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 10:37:20PM -0800, >[email protected] wrote: >>Hi, >> >>I'd like to request a new parameter for `efibootguard` to suppress any >>screen output during boot. I think the output I'm referring to comes >>from >>bootloader and I would like to propose "quiet" option in order to >>suppress >>all output. We don't want to show our customers anything that is not >>relevant to them. >> >Just my two cents: Systems I saw booting with efibootguard so far are >so >fast, that you even cannot read the output if you are not very >concentrated at the exact moment. So is it really necessary? On the >other hand additional information is always very helpful, wether a >customer >understands it or not. If he does not understand it, he can ignore it. >Well personally I never was a fan of boot logos hiding hardware info >nor of >blank BIOS screens... > >Andreas >>Regards, >>-Dmitri >> >>-- >>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>Groups "EFI Boot Guard" group. >>To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>an email to [email protected]. >>To post to this group, send email to >>[email protected]. >>To view this discussion on the web visit >>https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/efibootguard-dev/46ceee1a-b54b-4eee-93fe-2d5b4bc610ef%40googlegroups.com. >>For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > >-- >Andreas Reichel >Dipl.-Phys. (Univ.) >Software Consultant > >[email protected], +49-174-3180074 >TNG Technology Consulting GmbH, Betastr. 13a, 85774 Unterfoehring >Geschaeftsfuehrer: Henrik Klagges, Dr. Robert Dahlke, Gerhard Mueller >Sitz: Unterfoehring * Amtsgericht Muenchen * HRB 135082 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "EFI Boot Guard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/efibootguard-dev/emdd8120fc-9ac6-4c3c-a566-396750decb7b%40master. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
