Re: ENH: SysRq Screen-capture?

From: Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
Date: Sat Jan 08 2000 - 08:06:52 EST

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Colin Hirsch <hirsch@mystic.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
>
> 5. Once you panic, write the output (+ some magic and/or
> checksum) into some fixed memory region and let the
> kernel recover it upon next bootup.
>
On PC hardware you typically don't _have_ such a memory region.

Some (most?) chipsets don't even do memory refresh cycles while reset is
active.

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