From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Black box flight recorder for Linux
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 09:17:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200604080917.39562.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4437C335.30107@shaw.ca>
On Saturday 08 April 2006 16:05, Robert Hancock wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk> writes:
> >> Now, the question I have is, if I write values to RAM, do any of those
> >> values survive a reset?
> >
> > They don't generally.
> >
> > Some people used to write the oopses into video memory, but that
> > is not portable.
>
> I wouldn't think most BIOSes these days would bother to clear system RAM
> on a reboot. Certainly Microsoft was encouraging vendors not to do this
> because it slowed down system boot time.to
Reset button is like a cold boot and it generally ends up with cleared
RAM.
-Andi
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2006-04-08 14:05 ` Black box flight recorder for Linux Robert Hancock
2006-04-08 7:17 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-04-08 16:28 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-04-08 22:28 ` JustFillBug
2006-04-09 17:09 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-04-10 18:53 ` Ville Herva
2006-04-09 15:04 ` Andi Kleen
2006-04-09 19:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-10 12:18 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-04-10 19:44 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-04-10 20:07 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-04-08 22:45 linux
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2006-04-08 11:12 James Courtier-Dutton
2006-04-08 13:41 ` Andi Kleen
2006-04-08 19:42 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2006-04-08 16:40 ` Lee Revell
2006-04-08 17:30 ` Matti Aarnio
2006-04-09 19:23 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-04-10 12:01 ` Andy Green
2006-04-10 19:24 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-04-19 10:47 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-06-06 17:42 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-06-07 8:03 ` Jean Delvare
2006-06-07 10:18 ` Andy Green
2006-06-07 23:52 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-04-11 11:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-04-10 3:06 ` Russell Senior
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