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SubjectRe: Black box flight recorder for Linux
Andi Kleen wrote:
> 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

Thank you. That saved me 30mins hacking. :-)

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