On Apr 25, 2005, at 8:02 AM, Luke Mewburn wrote:
Log Message: Move the MI printing of `copyright' to the MD cpu_startup() code where the printing of `version' is already performed. This has the benefit of allowing the copyright to be available via dmesg(8) on platforms which need the `msgbuf' to be setup in cpu_startup() before printed output is remembered.
I'd rather this be done differently... I'd rather the msgbuf be set up before main() is called, so that it can all be printed in one place, rather than N.
Unfortunately, there was a philosophical difference between me and Chuck C when UVM was brought in on this point... Chuck was trying to eliminate as many "steal memory and KVA behind the VM system's back" as possible, and msgbuf was part of that.
-- thorpej