From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200004151632.RAA09255@hyperion.valhalla.net> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 17:40:01 +0100 Subject: Re: Preserving memory... From: "Iain Sandoe" To: Geert Uytterhoeven CC: "PPC-DEV" Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > 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. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/