Re: Black box flight recorder for Linux

[James Courtier-Dutton]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Saturday 08 April 2006 16:05, Robert Hancock wrote:
> > Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > James Courtier-Dutton <James@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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