Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 16:11:59 -0700 From: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: Frode Nordahl <frode@nordahl.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dmesg showing garbage Message-ID: <20021012161159.A30348@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1034464124.624.2.camel@samwise.xu.nordahl.net>; from frode@nordahl.net on Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 01:08:42AM %2B0200 References: <1034464124.624.2.camel@samwise.xu.nordahl.net>
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* De: Frode Nordahl <frode@nordahl.net> [ 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 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. -- Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> | FreeBSD: The Power To Serve Will break world for fulltime employment. | finger jmallett@FreeBSD.org http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmallett/ | Support my FreeBSD hacking! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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