Re: Black box flight recorder for Linux

Robert Hancock
2006-04-08T14:05:43Z

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.

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