Re: Always display bootprog_{name,rev}

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

Got it.



On Mon, 3 Nov 2025, Martin Husemann wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 02, 2025 at 09:25:17AM -0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> > Currently we display bootprog_name and bootprog_rev only as part
> > of the default banner.  If the user configures their own banner
> > we do not display the name and rev info, which might be useful
> > for debugging.
>
> Please don't do that, a configured banner needs to be able to override
> any other output.
>
> I have an example of zero output on the wiki:
>
> 	https://wiki.netbsd.org/security/custom_cgdroot/
>
> It uses:
>
> --8<--
> clear=1
> timeout=0
> fs=cgdrd.img
> banner=loading...
> menu=:boot netbsd -qz
> -->8--
>
> and I would actually prefer to have a way to totally supress the banner.
>
> Martin
>
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