Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 08 Apr 2006 17:28:39 +0100 | From | James Courtier-Dutton <> | Subject | Re: Black box flight recorder for Linux |
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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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