From: "Iain Sandoe" <iain@sandoe.co.uk>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: "PPC-DEV" <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Preserving memory...
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 17:40:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200004151632.RAA09255@hyperion.valhalla.net> (raw)
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Josh Huber wrote:
>> First, is there a way to tell powerpc hardware (Macs in particular -- for
>> now) to preserve memory across a system restart? It looks like it does this
>> by default, partially.
>>
>> Secondly, if I can get the first part to work reliably, does anyone know
>> what regions of memory should be avoided, i.e. are thrashed by OF etc?
>
> At least on the LongTrail, all memory is cleared by OF (at least it looks like
> that).
The macs have the OF #MEGS variable - so you should be able to control it -
it seems to work on the 9500.
I think that the trashed area is from the start.
Iain.
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2000-04-11 19:19 Preserving memory Josh Huber
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