Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Black box flight recorder for Linux | Date | Sat, 8 Apr 2006 09:17:39 +0200 |
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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.
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