Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 16:37:16 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dmesg buffer preserved between reboots Message-ID: <20020531213716.GD58285@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20020531210430.GA5725@sunbay.com> References: <20020531210430.GA5725@sunbay.com>
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In the last episode (Jun 01), Ruslan Ermilov said: > One of my remote i386 machines preserves the dmesg buffer between > reboots, and others not. What features cause this buffer to be > preserved? I saw this on Alphas, and thought that this was caused If your BIOS zeros out memory as part of a warmboot, you'll lose the dmesg buffer. I've got docked laptops that don't seem to ever zero the data, even on a power cycle. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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