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/
-marc
