Marc Nicholas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 23 May 2001, Eric Seppanen wrote:
>
> > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:05:22PM -0400, Marc Nicholas wrote:
> > > I seem to remember there are computer architectures that don't actually
> > > lose the contents of their RAM during a soft boot...and with Clever
> > > Tricks(tm) you could effectively start where you left off.
> > >
> > > Is this a potential application for LinuxBIOS? Is it actually the BIOS
> > > that's zero'ing the RAM on the PC? Or is it more tightly coupled to a
> > > hardware reset?
> >
> > I'm not seeing the usefulness here. If you want to leave the power on,
> > and preserve everything in RAM, what's the reason to reboot the system?
>
> Sorry, I guess I wasn't being clear enough.
>
> With persistent RAM techniques you allow protected memory space to
> survive a system crash...effectively allowing you to pick-up where the
> system left off in time. (Assuming that the starting point doesn't
> re-induce the crash).
>
> The Rio File Cache is an example of this: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/Rio/
You would need ram that survives the machine being unplugged for it
to be useful for this.
Eric
