Re: Black box flight recorder for Linux

[Robert Hancock]

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.

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