linux-kernel - Re: > I even didn't have a backtrace.

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Date:	Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:59:57 +0000
From:	Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@...oo.com>
To:	for.poige+linux@...il.com
CC:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: > I even didn't have a backtrace.

Igor Podlesny wrote:
> 	Similar, but no exactly. I just thought that unlikely BIOS erases
> memory content during "fast checks", so kernel diagnostic could be

My understanding is that the only part of the BIOS that doesn't get 
cleared over a reboot (the hardware clock) is already being abused for 
suspend tracing  - 
http://mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/power/s2ram.txt .
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