Well when a reboot occurs, the POST routines in the BIOS can make the memory contents 0... happens on some bioses when performing a memory test.. the better way to preserver a memory location is to write to make it persistant i.e. write the contects to the disk and reload the block upon start at the same address.... regards, Sharath > Hello, > > I want to preserve a region of memory across reboot. > I am thinking if I have > change init/main.c file and after do_basic_setup(), > reserve a memory region, > than I can recover the contents of memory after > reboot. > > Do you thing this will work ? > > Is using a staticly linked driver be a better > approach ? > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux > kernel. > Archive: > http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > ===== -Sharath __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
