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Re: three kernel patches for review


From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:24:37 +0200
Mail-followup-to: submit@crater.dragonflybsd.org

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 06:48:02PM -0700, 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'm also split on the badram patch. I have some RAM modules which have
static bad bits, so they could be used with the bad ram patch. On the
other hand, such modules should be replaced and burned :)

Joerg



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