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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:51:48 +0100
To: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
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Subject: Re: cpu info in userland
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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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