In article <20030309190841.A553@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk>
david@l8s.co.uk wrote:

> Where do the first of these messages come from - they appear on the
> console in green, but are missing from dmesg (which starts with the
> kernel id).  Would they still appear if it were removed?

dmesg is initialized by initmsgbuf() in machdep.c:cpu_startup()
which is called after "printf("%s", copyright);" in kern/init_main.c.

Maybe initmsgbuf() could be moved into pmap_bootstrap() or
other init function to preserve those messages, but I'm not sure.
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp