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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. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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