Hello,
I have noticed for some time now that the top of dmesg after a reboot
often contains garbage.
The more strange thing is that it some times also contains console
output from the previous shutdown sequence.
Example of somewhat garbled data:
%dmesg |head
module
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
* De: Frode Nordahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Data: 2002-10-12 ]
[ Subjecte: Re: dmesg showing garbage ]
Anyway, it could show that FreeBSD could do a better job initializing
memory on bootup?
This is a job of the BIOS, and I wasn't trying to explain the garbage,
merely why there's stuff from
* De: Frode Nordahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Data: 2002-10-12 ]
[ Subjecte: dmesg showing garbage ]
Hello,
The more strange thing is that it some times also contains console
output from the previous shutdown sequence.
If you reboot and the memory is not cleared, the buffer (stored
