Re: Repeat the Ending

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@work.smurf.noris.de)
12 Jun 1997 08:58:23 +0200

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Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net> writes:
>
> Take an SMP kernel, compile in drivers for a few devices...a SCSI card or
> two, ethernet, a selection of SCSI devices, etc., especially things like
> the Buslogic driver (16 or so lines of bootup info!), and the kernel
> message buffer runs out of space real quick.
>
So hack the kernel printk to allocate a 32-kByte buffer upon booting, and
free it (in much the same way initialization code is freed) once the buffer
has been emptied.

Should not be too difficult...

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