Thanks. That simplified my life :-) My new Q is frequency -- How often should I get current sources and upgrade the kernel?
On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 2:43 PM Martin Neitzel <neit...@hackett.marshlabs.gaertner.de> wrote: > > > FIRST MY DMESG: > > [...] > > It looks like it repeated? > > The kernel message ring buffer (that's what dmesg(1) displays) is > preserved across reboot(8)s/shutdown -r's and accumulates the messages > even if you reboot into different kernel versions. A cold start > (after a -p shutdown) will start with an empty message buffer. > > > I did dmesg > /umass1/NETBSD-HEAD* > > The standard rc setup saves the current set of boot messages > in /var/run/dmesg.boot. This becomes helpful when later kernel > messages displace the boot msgs in the ring buffer. > > > where /umass1 is the mount point for my 4-port USB hub. None of my > > USB-3.0 ports work. My USB-3.1 (web camera) works, and my nVidia > > GTX- 680 works inconsistantly. Any ideas? > > Nope. > > > If I upgrade to a later version of NetBSD-HEAD, will I need to upgrade > > the entire system, or only the kernel sources? > > Just upgrading your kernel is fine. A newer kernel will generally > have no problem with an older user land version. > > Martin Neitzel
