Re: Persistent RAM with LinuxBIOS?

[Eric Seppanen]

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?