Re: [PATCH] MIPS: add support for gzip/bzip2/lzma compressed kernel images

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 10:36:46PM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote:

> As a side note, I would personally leave the DEBUG non-optional and 
> turned on as it all disappears at runtime anyway, but I'm no kernel 
> developer :)

Printing is hardware specific; the debug code will need to be changed for
practically every MIPS platform on the planet, so I'm not too fond of the
idea unless somebody comes up with a cleaner infrastructure to do so.
Unfortunately we're not setup very well to do configuration detection etc.
in that debug code without adding tons of baggage.

  Ralf