From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 8 2:25:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1921937B442 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 02:25:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f789SOZ01539; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 02:28:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200108080928.f789SOZ01539@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Kazutaka YOKOTA Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dmesg behaviour In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Aug 2001 11:47:08 +0900." <200108080247.LAA05281@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 02:28:24 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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 This is system-specific. Typically, systems only clear memory on cold-boot, but the behaviour is not standardised. > As far as I understand, this feature works only if the machine does not > clear its memory upon reboot. AT compatibles clear memory during the > BIOS POST, thus, we don't see console log from the previous boot > on the i386 platform. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message