- only print a line for every boot process if 'verbose' variable set to
nonzero; reason: with serial output, the long output
significantly slows down frequent reboots, and causes 'scroll damage'
that in some cases is pretty bad. also the verbose output doesn't tell
you the one thing you might want to know about a process: how much memory
is it using? or how much memory is everything using?
- short format does print out total memory allocated for processes
this bug report (snippet):
> From: "Christos Karayiannis" <christos@kar.forthnet.gr>
> To: <bugs@minix3.org>
> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:22:49 +0200
> Subject: bootimage.c
>
> Hi,
>
> at exec_image() of bootimage.c the a_bss and a_stack are printed with
> some values and then, if the K_CLAIM flag is set, they become zero. But
> this is then wrong information.
so the list of programs in the image and their sizes can be seen before the
kernel starts filling the screen.
Added some formatting fixes in installboot and boot monitor itself,
some of the segments were larger than the formatting allowed.
