> A INT13 persistent data saving will probably be too hard to implement for > all kind of storages. So, it will probably need lots of hack in order to > work. Also, some hardware may even not have any local hard disk. Not sure > if it is worth to spend time on it. Linus was pretty clear that he didn't like the idea when it came up a few weeks ago in the: [PATCH 0/2][conce​pt RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk upon panic thread. Linus ranted: > Quite frankly, I'm not likely to _ever_ merge anything like this. > > Over the years, many people have tried to write things to disk on > oops. I refuse to take it. No way in hell do I want the situation of > "the system is screwed, so let's overwrite the disk" to be something > the kernel I release might do. It's crazy. That disk is a lot more > important than the kernel, and overwriting it when we might have > serious memory corruption issues or something is not a thing I feel is > appropriate. I agree with him - writing to disk from a known broken kernel (using a probably buggy BIOS) is a disaster waiting to happen to somebody's disk. -Tony {.n++%ݶw{.n+{G{ayʇڙ,jfhz_(階ݢj"mG?&~iOzv^m ?I