On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 01:11, Juli Mallett wrote: > If you reboot and the memory is not cleared, the buffer (stored at a > fixed address) may still be intact, and the kernel buffering code will > be smart enough to span to the end of the buffer, and append (circularly) > there.
This does not explain the garbled data in the "normal" dmesg output though. And it also happens after a power-down (shutdown -p). But, this is a laptop, with battery (and power cord plugged in). And it may keep memory alive for some obscure reason. Anyway, it could show that FreeBSD could do a better job initializing memory on bootup? > -- > Juli Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | FreeBSD: The Power To Serve > Will break world for fulltime employment. | finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmallett/ | Support my FreeBSD hacking! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
