Is there printk() in FreeBSD?

Eygene Ryabinkin rea-fbsd at codelabs.ru
Tue May 12 11:48:43 UTC 2009


Tue, May 12, 2009 at 06:29:35PM +0800, ????ccuiyyan at sina.com wrote:

> A simple question: sometimes i need to print out some kernel
> address in FreeBSD kernel. And i know printk() can be used in
> Linux to print the message to dmesg, Is there some similar in
> FreeBSD?
> 
> It seems that printk() cannot work in the FreeBSD kernel.

Use plain printf().

> And where can we find the output? in dmesg or somewhere else?

In the dmesg and in all (syslogged) destinations you had configured.
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