well well... (getting nostalgic now) I remember the days when we had DOS.. and graphic cards had more memory available... so we had all these crazy memory managers that used to move out the data in these regions to increase the memory available in the 640K region!!!!! (the EMM from Quarterdeck.. called this 'stealth' technique.. yes considering that the F117 was in rage then.. and even won accolades from the top magazines as the best memory manager) well well we sure have come a long way since then.. but hey if it can be done and if there is an advantage I don't see why we cant.. but the question remains.. we don't have any reliable means of restoring the memory after a reboot.. BTW: I read this in the apm (advanced power management spec).. the BIOS can swap the memory contents to the disk and go into a suspend.. and after wakeup restores it from the physical store.. quiet interesting.... -Sharath > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:47:28AM -0700, Seth > Arnold wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:33:44PM -0700, Usman S. > Ansari wrote: > > > arch is ppc & i dont have 2nd storage. What > other option i have? > > Buying an NVRAM card? Doing all storage over a > network? > > Actually, I have an idea (which is generaly a bad > thing to happen). > > I have notice that, on recent XFree86 version, the > vesa driver has a bug. > It first display the screen, then clears the video > memory (so we have some > leftover from the last time we used the video on > vesa mode). Does that > implies that the graphic video memory is not reset > (or touched) on a reboot ? > I don't know. But maybe you can try saving data > there, if you don't need to > much space (I did not get the first messages of the > thread, sorry). > > There is also some leftover memory on other device, > you may try using. > > Anyway, my experience is only with IA32 platform, so > your mileage may > vary on ppc. > > []s ===== -Sharath __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
