Is there printk() in FreeBSD?

Eygene Ryabinkin rea-fbsd at codelabs.ru
Tue May 12 11:50:11 UTC 2009


Tue, May 12, 2009 at 03:48:38PM +0400, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
> 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().

By the way, there is device_printf (man 9 device_printf) that is
a bit prettier than the plain printf, so you can use it as well.
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