Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:05:03 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Tomasz Paszkowski <ns88@genesis.k.pl> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dmesg after reboot Message-ID: <200010112005.e9BK53h06903@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Oct 2000 21:52:44 %2B0200." <20001011215244.A47039@genesis.k.pl>
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> On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 01:47:31PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> > In message <20001011211613.A1616@genesis.k.pl> Tomasz Paszkowski writes:
> > : Does FreeBSD saves before reboot content of kernel message buffer ??
> >
> > No[*]
> >
> > Warner
> >
> > [*] Some laptops seem to preserve the dmesg buffer and FreeBSD uses
> > it.
>
> But it is 486DX2 as it was shown in dmesg listing
If the message buffer magic number has not been corrupted by the BIOS,
FreeBSD will reuse it. This works on any system that doesn't zero memory
on a warm boot.
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