From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 12 16:12: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id 2ADBB37B401; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 16:11:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 16:11:59 -0700 From: Juli Mallett To: Frode Nordahl Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dmesg showing garbage Message-ID: <20021012161159.A30348@FreeBSD.org> References: <1034464124.624.2.camel@samwise.xu.nordahl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1034464124.624.2.camel@samwise.xu.nordahl.net>; from frode@nordahl.net on Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 01:08:42AM +0200 Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , , , , X-Towel: Yes X-LiveJournal: flata, jmallett X-Negacore: Yes Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * De: Frode Nordahl [ Data: 2002-10-12 ] [ Subjecte: dmesg showing garbage ] > Hello, > > The more strange thing is that it some times also contains console > output from the previous shutdown sequence. If you reboot and the memory is not cleared, the buffer (stored at a fixed address) may still be intact, and the kernel buffering code will be smart enough to span to the end of the buffer, and append (circularly) there. -- Juli Mallett | FreeBSD: The Power To Serve Will break world for fulltime employment. | finger jmallett@FreeBSD.org http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmallett/ | Support my FreeBSD hacking! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message