Re: Please help me fill in the blanks.

Cesar Da Silva (thunderlight1@yahoo.com)
Sun, 27 May 2001 19:26:20 +0200 (CEST)


--- Ville Herva <vherva@mail.niksula.cs.hut.fi>
skrev: > > > * Dynamic Memory Resilience
> >
> > RAM fault tolerance? There was a patch a long
> time ago which detected
> > bad ram, and would mark those memory clusters as
> unuseable at boot.
> > However that is clearly not dynamic.
>
> If you are referring to Badram patch by Rick van
> Rein
> (http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/), it doesn't
> detect the bad ram,
> memtest86 does that part (and does it well) -- you
> enter then enter the
> badram clusters as boot param. But I have to say
> badram patch works
> marvellously (thanks, Rick.) Shame it didn't find
> its way to standard
> kernel.

Hi Ville, and thanks for the great link and the
information.

Regards,
Cesar da Silva

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