three kernel patches for review

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Wed Apr 20 01:25:23 PDT 2005


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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