Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:08:05 -0700 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86_64: early memtest to find bad ram |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: > > very nice patch! I always thought that this was the proper way to do > memtest - and we could in fact also do something like this after SMP > bringup, and hit the memory bus via multiple CPUs. [that will need a > different enumeration though than e820 maps] > > one structural observation: please make this unified functionality, so > that 32-bit kernels can make use of it too. >
Indeed. Of course, it would also be nice if distros shipped bootloader-invoked prekernel test software, like memtest86+, by default.
-hpa
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