cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 identcpu.c

Wes Peters wes at softweyr.com
Thu Apr 10 23:54:21 PDT 2003


On Thursday 10 April 2003 01:01, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20030410075833.GF1280 at garage.freebsd.pl>
>
>             Pawel Jakub Dawidek <nick at 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.

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Wes Peters                                               wes at softweyr.com



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