From: Christoph Stueckjuergen <christoph.stueckjuergen@siemens.com>
Organization: Siemens AG
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: writing OOPS/panic info to nvram?
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:18:54 +0100
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>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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