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Subject: Re: writing OOPS/panic info to nvram?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
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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.

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