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SubjectRe: > I even didn't have a backtrace.
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:59:57PM +0000, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> Igor Podlesny wrote:
> > Similar, but no exactly. I just thought that unlikely BIOS erases
> >memory content during "fast checks", so kernel diagnostic could be
>
> My understanding is that the only part of the BIOS that doesn't get
> cleared over a reboot (the hardware clock) is already being abused for
> suspend tracing -
> http://mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/power/s2ram.txt .

That's the only part of the system that's guaranteed to persist over a
power cycle. You probably have a little more flexibility with a warm
reboot.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org


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