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protos, menu: Add global terse option to hide loading messages - #640

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Summary

This PR introduces a global terse1 configuration option under Miscellaneous settings in limine.conf.

When set to yes, it suppresses informational loading messages (Loading kernel, Loading executable, and Loading module) across all supported boot protocols (Limine, Linux x86/RISC-V, Multiboot 1/2) upon selecting an entry. Unlike quiet: yes, it keeps the boot menu, editor, and warning/panic outputs fully functional and visible.

Closes #635

Footnotes

  1. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/terse ↩

Mintsuki added 30 commits August 18, 2026 11:51
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fs/fat32: Reject a file larger than its cluster chain
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lib/fb: Derive the loongarch64 caches to write back from CPUCFG
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fs/fat32: Free the cluster chain when declining an oversized file
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menu_thunk: Keep the ia32 saved stack pointer out of .text
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sys/cpu_riscv: Take the Zicbom block size from the device tree
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sys/cpu_riscv: Take the Zicbom block size from the RHCT CMO node
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lib/fb: Report whether the framebuffer flush reached memory
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lib/fb: Do not draw to a framebuffer that cannot be flushed
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Cache pressure evicts into the next cache level rather than to memory, so
on a part with a write-back L2 the framebuffer stays dirty however large
the eviction buffer is.

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lib/gterm: Let the caller install every firmware-console fallback
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lib/misc: Accept EFI descriptors that lie inside an owned region
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lib/misc: Hand back every owned region a descriptor covers
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Firmware may describe several separately allocated regions with one
descriptor, so matching a single region left the others held as loader
memory for the lifetime of the kernel.

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test: Give printf standard formats and check them against arguments
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%x meant size_t, so the multiboot tests truncated 64-bit values while
riscv64 and loongarch64 sign-extended 32-bit ones into the upper half.

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lib/part: Keep the extended partition volume across logical probes
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lib/part: Resume the EBR walk where the last probe left off
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entry: Close limine-bios.sys when its size is wrong
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sleep: Wait for the tick target to be reached, not matched
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protos/limine: Derive each request scan bound from what it guards
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protos/limine: Stop the request scan where nothing can still match
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protos/limine: Size the .limine_reqs bound for the whole request ID
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mm/pmm: Check the EFI descriptor size before using it
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lib/term: Build the post-ExitBootServices terminal in advance
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lib/term: Rotate the post-ExitBootServices terminal as configured
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drivers/mouse: Draw the pointer sprite on rotated terminals
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build: Stop a failed recipe leaving a stale target
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tools/limlzpack: Stop the parser adding to its impossible-cost sentinel
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tools/limlzpack: Say which limit an unencodable input hit
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tools/limlzpack: Bound the input by what the suffix array can index
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tools/limlzpack: Probe endianness through a character type
b9a6d66 
C99 only permits aliasing an object through a character type, and
uint8_t is not required to be one.

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host/limine: Probe endianness through a character type
8d59946 
C99 only permits aliasing an object through a character type, and
uint8_t is not required to be one.

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host/limine: Publish the uninstall entry count only once it loaded
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host/limine: Reject an unrecognised option in the version subcommand
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host/limine: Refuse a BIOS boot partition that overlaps another
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drivers/serial: Bound every candidate port before the probe writes it
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menu: Settle the serial port before the terminal is built
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menu: Draw for a serial line whenever the output goes to one
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host/limine: Floor the primary reserve erase at two blocks
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host/limine: Reject an unrecognised option in enroll-config
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host/limine: Let a 32-bit build open a device over 2 GiB
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lib/acpi: Move the RSDP and table lookup to stage 2
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sys/cpu: Calibrate the TSC against the ACPI PM timer first
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sys/cpu: Refuse to boot with an uncalibrated TSC
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sys/cpu: Bound the PIT calibration's wait for terminal count
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host/limine: Reject an unrecognised option in bios-install
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host/limine: Bound an alternate GPT candidate by the device's last block
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menu: Clamp SERIAL_BAUDRATE before narrowing it to 32 bits
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lib/gterm: Treat an out-of-range or unparseable font spacing as absent
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lib/part: Honour a primary GPT header only on a protective MBR
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host/limine: Honour a primary GPT header only on a protective MBR
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drivers/serial: Prefer the SPCR to the BDA word
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menu: Accept a SERIAL_BAUDRATE only from 50 up and dividing 115200
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menu: Anchor the editor's window to a screen row rather than a line
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common/menu: don't discard the first input
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drivers/mouse: more robust aux_drain loop
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docs/ChangeLog: Update for 12.6.1
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gha: Update and hash-verify MinGW binaries in the release workflow
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feat: terse: add config values
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feat: terse: gate messages
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docs: config: document tearse option
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hotline1337 changed the base branch from v12.x to trunk August 30, 2026 21:45
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Option to hide "Loading kernel" and "Loading modules" messages when an entry is selected

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