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Date:      Thu, 10 Apr 2003 23:54:15 -0700
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, nick@garage.freebsd.pl
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 identcpu.c
Message-ID:  <200304102354.15160.wes@softweyr.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030410.020128.15251097.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <200304100705.h3A75OVW019701@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030410075833.GF1280@garage.freebsd.pl> <20030410.020128.15251097.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On Thursday 10 April 2003 01:01, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20030410075833.GF1280@garage.freebsd.pl>
>
>             Pawel Jakub Dawidek <nick@garage.freebsd.pl> writes:
> : You can also get it from /var/run/dmesg.boot or I'm missing
> : something?
>
> Many embedded uses of FreeBSD might not bother to create that to save
> space.

And it takes a LOT more code to parse such a thing out of dmesg.boot than 
it does to save it in 4 bytes of kernel space.

-- 

        Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?

Wes Peters                                               wes@softweyr.com



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