> Even though those nvram devices are fragile and can only stomach a > limited amount of writes, wouldn't it be a nifty feature to have a > kernel cmdline param of the sort "put_dmesg_in_nvram_this_one_time_only" > which logs to nvram only once for debugging purposes. Speed is also a factor ... waiting for flash to update for each printk() would mess up timing so much that you might not see the problem you are chasing. A better EFI trick for this would be "capsules". They live in regular RAM and BIOS firmware does stuff with them at warm reset time. Matt has been looking at them - but BIOS support for them seems sketchy to none right now. -Tony ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{����*jg��������ݢj����G�������j:+v���w�m������w�������h�����٥