Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:51:48 +0100 From: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <drwilco@drwilco.net> To: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cpu info in userland Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020123174945.01c80b50@mail.drwilco.net> In-Reply-To: <20020123113909.P2872@numachi.com> References: <200201230147.g0N1l0d04015@mass.dis.org> <nospam-1011750084.73718@bambi.gbch.net> <200201230147.g0N1l0d04015@mass.dis.org>
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I'm guessing that the message buffer is always in the same place in memory
when you use the same kernel. And thus if you soft-reboot and the memory
doesn't get wiped by the BIOS it's still there.
Doc
At 11:39 23-1-2002 -0500, you wrote:
>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?
>
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>Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
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