Re: writing OOPS/panic info to nvram?

From: Christoph Stueckjuergen
Date: Mon Jan 24 2005 - 10:20:22 EST


>On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 12:50, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > hi
> >
> > I just read in the OS X.2 technote
> >
(http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2053.html#TN001016)
> > that
> > they're writing the panic dump to nvram.
> >
> > Is it hard to implement this on Linux?

> Its been done years ago. However on a PC you basically have no
free
> nvram so its not terribly useful there.
If it has been done years ago, are there patches also for 2.6
kernels available?

Christoph
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