Re: writing OOPS/panic info to nvram?

From: Morten Helgesen (morten.helgesen@nextframe.net)
Date: Wed Sep 04 2002 - 07:54:46 EST


On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 01:49:12PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 13:31, Morten Helgesen wrote:
> > True - the 'normal' size on a PC is apparently something like 114 bytes ...
> > I guess we could use it for something useful ... but maybe not for
> > OOPSen/panics.
> >
> > I didn`t realize we only had 114 bytes to work with.
>
> We don't. They are all used by the BIOS

That makes it even less useful. Oh well.

== Morten

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