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This idea is not new. Macs have had such a device for ages. Among other things, it stores the speaker volume setting (ever notice Macs don't make the boot sound
by codex 15y ago
This idea is not new. Macs have had such a device for ages. Among other things, it stores the speaker volume setting (ever notice Macs don't make the boot sound at startup if the volume has been muted?) as well as kernel panic info, which is subsequently relayed to Apple.
- rytis 15y agoI'm not too familiar with the matter, but here's a comment from the article: "Modern macs implement it as an EFI variable. Unsurprisingly, their implementation is incompatible with the EFI spec's implementation of the concept."