Re: [PATCH -v1.1] x86, boot: Further compress CPUs bootup message

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Sep 28 2013 - 15:58:14 EST



* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> How about:
>
> m = 10;
> d = 1;
>
> while ( val >= m ) {
> m *= 10;
> d++;
> }
>
> ... and not have a *divide* in there?

Yeah :-)

> Man, entering code on a cell phone sucks...

Indeed that explains the BASIC style! (and you got the 8-space tabs right
on a html mailer - wow, that's impressive.)

It's also probably the first time that code entered on an ordinary cell
phone has gets into the Linux kernel, so it's probably a new Linux
milestone, in a twisted, sick way. ;-)

Thanks,

Ingo
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