But if we have a way to save the data, we can have a patch to restore it. Now is when the fun begins :-) []s On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 04:28:07AM -0700, Sharath wrote: > 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/ -- Rodrigo Barbosa - rodrigob at tisbrasil.com.br TIS - Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" - http://www.tisbrasil.com.br/ Brainbench Certified -> Transcript ID #3332104 -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
