Preserving memory...

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Sat Apr 15 23:28:44 EST 2000


On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Josh Huber wrote:
> First, is there a way to tell powerpc hardware (Macs in particular -- for
> now) to preserve memory across a system restart?  It looks like it does this
> by default, partially.
>
> Secondly, if I can get the first part to work reliably, does anyone know
> what regions of memory should be avoided, i.e. are thrashed by OF etc?

At least on the LongTrail, all memory is cleared by OF (at least it looks like
that).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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