The system message log contains more information than will normally be output to the console, these messages can be useful for discovering problems.

selected all-wr for console write
selected all-rd for console read
DRAM: 128 Mb (134217728 bytes)
BAST: PMU version 1.02, ID 00:01:3d:00:01:6a
ABLE 2.20 Copyright 2001-2005,2006 Simtec Electronics
hdb: ATAPI CDROM: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-7002B PIO mode 4
hdc: FUJITSU MHF2043AT: ATA PIO mode 4
hdc:Diagnosing disc drive: ok
(hdc) 4GB
(hd0) on ((hdc1):ext2)
(hdb) Drive Empty
DM9000: dm0: r1, 00:01:3d:00:01:6a int phy, link ok, 100Mbit full duplex
NE2000: ne0: ISA/Generic, 00:01:3d:00:01:6b
TMP101: not detected
sys.autoshadow unset, automatically shadowing
>sysmsg
1: dcc: status 20000000, read 80f403c8
2: low level serial 00000000
3: log level is now 1
4: ABLE: 2.20 (s3c2410x) (vince@gerald) Thu Feb 16 14:47:40 GMT 2006
5: Processor: Samsung S3C2410A (arm920)
6: System: Machine bast/s3c2410x, Linux id 0x014b
7: S3C2410X RTC: 13:49:57, 03/01/2003
8: (s3c2410x) character device
9: NAND: configured boot slot is 0 (card slot)
10: NAND device 0: Samsung K9F1208u0a [131072,32,512]
11: (flash0) on (nand0p1)
12: (flash1) on ((nand0p2):jffs2)
13: EEPROM: 24cXX, 1024 bytes, single byte addressed, UID unset
14: (nvram0) on (24cxx0p1)
15: sys.speed is unset, Setting CPU Speed to 266MHz
16: (u16550_serial0) aliased to (char0)
17: (u16550_serial1) aliased to (char1)
18: s3c2410_serial: 115200, 8n1, 16 byte fifo on, u clock
19: (s3c2410_serial0) aliased to (char2)
20: s3c2410_serial: 115200, 8n1, 16 byte fifo on, u clock
21: (s3c2410_serial1) aliased to (char3)
22: s3c2410_serial: 115200, 8n1, 16 byte fifo on, u clock
23: (s3c2410_serial2) aliased to (char4)
24: all-wr: adding console 'serial'
25: all-wr: adding console 'null'
26: no configuration, defaulting to VGA
27: Chrontel CH7006 detected
28: screen mode is 640x480, ?Hz, ?Hz HSync
29: video: video size 300K
30: s3c-fb: VClk=22166666 HZ
31: configuring ch7006: vga
32: all-wr: adding console 's3c2410x-video'
33: failed to find SM501 device
34: no console level set, setting 6
35: selected all-wr for console write
36: selected all-rd for console read
37: DRAM: 128 Mb (134217728 bytes)
38: BAST: PMU version 1.02, ID 00:01:3d:00:01:6a
39: usb.enable not set, setting 1
40: usb.hubdepth not set, setting 2
41: new hc e036d1b4
42: starting hc e036d1b4
43: ABLE 2.20 Copyright 2001-2005,2006 Simtec Electronics
44: hdb: ATAPI CDROM: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-7002B PIO mode 4
45: hdc: FUJITSU MHF2043AT: ATA PIO mode 4
46: hdc:Diagnosing disc drive: ok
47: (hdc) 4GB
48: (hd0) on ((hdc1):ext2)
49: (hdb) Drive Empty
50: DM9000: dm0: r1, 00:01:3d:00:01:6a int phy, link ok, 100Mbit full duplex
51: NE2000: ne0: ISA/Generic, 00:01:3d:00:01:6b
52: ne0: PHY 0180:bb10, state 7849, LPA 0000,0004
53: ne0: starting PHY reset (238)
54: TMP101: not detected
55: sys.autoshadow unset, automatically shadowing
56: >ne0: bringing PHY up (489)
57: sysmsg
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