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To: James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Black box flight recorder for Linux
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: 08 Apr 2006 15:41:02 +0200
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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.

-Andi