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Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:02:41 +0200
From: Morten Helgesen <morten.helgesen@nextframe.net>
To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
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Subject: Re: writing OOPS/panic info to nvram?
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Hey, Roy

On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 01:50:21PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> hi
> 
> I just read in the OS X.2 technote 

So did I :)

> (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?

Doesn`t look like too much work. As far as I can see, from a quick
glance, we have everything we need at hand - just have to write a snippet
of code in traps.c. I`ll give it a whirl now.

> 
> roy
> -- 
> Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester
> ProntoTV AS - http://www.pronto.tv/
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== Morten

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mvh
Morten Helgesen 
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