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Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:31:15 +0200
From: Morten Helgesen <morten.helgesen@nextframe.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re:  writing OOPS/panic info to nvram?
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On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 01:21:33PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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.

True - the 'normal' size on a PC is apparently something like 114 bytes ... 
I  guess we could use it for something useful ... but maybe not for
OOPSen/panics. 

I didn`t realize we only had 114 bytes to work with.

== Morten

-- 

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mvh
Morten Helgesen 
UNIX System Administrator & C Developer 
Nextframe AS
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