> BTW,
> 
> do people have some strong objections against adding boot verbose
> flag ? Would make porting FreeBSD code little bit easier and
> generally seems like good idea - could enable to compile with
> all the debugging messages compiled in, yet still print all the
> stuff only when needed.
> 

I find it useful- there is also the same thing under Solaris.
The idea here is to reduce the noise (a good thing) but have
the diagnostic tools available (w/o a recompile) to write
down messages that can go into mail or into a PR.