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Re: three kernel patches for review


To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: David Xu <davidxu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:39:42 +0800

Matthew Dillon wrote:

On #3 ... that doesn't look so reasonable. I suppose on a machine with
huge amounts of memory one might want such a mechanism, but frankly if
memory is bad (especially if it is ECC'd memory), the only correct
solution is to replace it.


So I would say 'no' on the badram patch, at least for now.


I don't think it is only for bad ram. :-) some BIOS is bad enough that a space is I/O space but it lies that it is ram and could be used, too bad.

-Matt
Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Cheers,


David Xu



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