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Persistent storage for a kernel's "dying breath"

Persistent storage for a kernel's "dying breath"

Posted May 19, 2011 14:37 UTC (Thu) by kayabek (guest, #40330)
Parent article: Persistent storage for a kernel's "dying breath"

This idea is not new. Macs have had such a device for ages.


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Persistent storage for a kernel's "dying breath"

Posted May 19, 2011 14:46 UTC (Thu) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

Modern macs implement it as an EFI variable. Unsurprisingly, their implementation is incompatible with the EFI spec's implementation of the concept.

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