Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 08 Apr 2006 08:05:41 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: Black box flight recorder for Linux |
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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.
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