[haiku-development] Re: USB Keyboard and Debugger

  • From: Dustin Howett <alaricx@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:28:22 -0500

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Vincent Duvert <vincent.duvert@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On a side note : IIRC, Mac OS X writes its panics dumps to NVRAM. This could
> be a good way to save panic information when crashing... But maybe it is
> only possible on Macs, I don't know.
>
> Vincent
>

Unfortunately, they can do that because they have control over all the
hardware that goes into the computer, such as what I think may be
larger NVRAM. We've only got a handful of bytes to work with in NVRAM
in current BIOS-using PCs (though this may change with EFI).
-- 
- Dustin L. Howett

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