customising the kernel banner

[Stefan Unterweger]

I accidentally sent the last message before putting a proper
subject.   Sorry for the noise.

* Stefan Unterweger on Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 01:02:09PM +0200:
> Just out of curiosity, as I’m starting to lose track which of my various
> machines has which specific kernel running…
> 
> The first few lines printed by the kernel right upon boot are like these:
> | Copyright (c) 2003-2016 The DragonFly Project.
> | Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
> | Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> | 	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> | DragonFly 4.5-DEVELOPMENT #1: Wed Jul  6 09:59:00 UTC 2016
> |     root at nur-ab-sal:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/X86_64_GENERIC
> 
> I‘ve tried looking through the code, but I can‘t find where especially
> the last two lines are generated.  I‘d like to try whether I can have
> the git checkout id shown somewhere in there, so that I know which exact
> kernel is running where.
> 
> Also, I‘ve noticed that the kernel that comes with the installation CD
> has a line like this:
> | root at www.shiningsilence.com:/usr/obj/home/justin/release/4_4/sys/X86_64_GENERIC
> that is, with the fully-qualified host name of the machine that built
> it.  If I build it myself, I only get the first component (‘nur-ab-sal’
> in the example).  Is this intentional or just some misconfiguration on
> my part?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
>     Stefan


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