On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 12:19:06AM +0100, Dennis den Brok wrote:
|ISTR I've seen the same dmesg-oddities on all
|NetBSD-newer-than-1.6-machines I've set up so far; I used to blame my
|stupidity, though. I'm curios what the reason for that is. 

as far as I can imagine, the dmesg garbage is just that the kernel message
buffer might not be cleared before use ... that would be odd, but fits
with observations ...

On a machine here I get roughly 1k of null characters before the kernel
banner ... fine on anything other than a serial console ... :)

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