three kernel patches for review

David Xu davidxu at freebsd.org
Tue Apr 19 19:39:42 PDT 2005


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 at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cheers,

David Xu





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