Andi Kleen wrote:
James Courtier-Dutton <[email protected]> writes:
Now, the question I have is, if I write values to RAM, do any of those
values survive a reset?
They don't generally.
Some people used to write the oopses into video memory, but that
is not portable.
I wouldn't think most BIOSes these days would bother to clear system RAM
on a reboot. Certainly Microsoft was encouraging vendors not to do this
because it slowed down system boot time.
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