Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 23:53:54 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>, Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern init_main.c Message-ID: <20000226155354.633EF1CE3@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> of "Sat, 26 Feb 2000 17:35:56 %2B0900." <38B7906C.117AB55E@newsguy.com>
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"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > Mike Smith wrote: > > > > The syscons scrollback buffer is _not_ the kernel message buffer. > > Syscons scrollback buffer is quite small (about 96 lines IIRC), while > > the kernel message buffer is something like 8K by default. > > Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only person on earth who won't even call > it a "scrollback buffer" if it's less than 1000 lines... :-) 'guess it > must be my muddy past. The other problem is that the "scrollback buffer" is initialized from screen contents when syscons starts up properly. If you boot in -v mode you can *easily* get two or three screenfulls of data scrolled off the top of the screen before sc0 probes and attaches. You can have a 1 million line "history" but it still won't recover those 3 lost screens of data. Only dmesg(8)/sysctl can get to it. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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