Re: three kernel patches for review

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:39:42AM +0800, David Xu wrote:
> 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.

That will be fixed :) Actually, we have to deal with such issues on
machines with 4 GB RAM I think :)

Joerg