From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 23 8:39:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.numachi.com (numachi.numachi.com [198.175.254.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 58BB537B402 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 08:39:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 8924 invoked by uid 3001); 23 Jan 2002 16:39:10 -0000 Received: from natto.numachi.com (198.175.254.216) by numachi.numachi.com with SMTP; 23 Jan 2002 16:39:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 47468 invoked by uid 1001); 23 Jan 2002 16:39:09 -0000 Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 11:39:09 -0500 From: Brian Reichert To: Michael Smith Cc: Greg Black , Brian Reichert , Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg , Brooks Davis , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cpu info in userland Message-ID: <20020123113909.P2872@numachi.com> References: <200201230147.g0N1l0d04015@mass.dis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200201230147.g0N1l0d04015@mass.dis.org>; from msmith@mass.dis.org on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 05:47:00PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 05:47:00PM -0800, Michael Smith wrote: > The message buffer is not perturbed by the boot process unless the BIOS > overwrites it. If the BIOS doesn't overwrite it, it's preserved from one > boot to the next. I'm confused then. Is this 'message buffer' not a construct of the kernel? Where does it exist? -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message