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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:39:44 +0200
From: Ville Herva <vherva@niksula.hut.fi>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: What's left over.
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On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 10:23:32AM +0100, you [Geert Uytterhoeven] wrote:
> 
> Except on m68k, where we've had a feature to store all kernel messages in an
> unused portion of memory (e.g. some Chip RAM on Amiga) and recover them after
> reboot since ages.

There was similar thing for x86 as well:

http://www.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/1999week27/0782.html

Of course it never went to mainline (and I don't know how well it worked.)
>From what I understand, lkcd can support such method easily.


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