Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:29:45 -0600 | From | "Chris Friesen" <> | Subject | Re: marching through all physical memory in software |
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Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Thinking about it. We only care about memory the kernel is using so the memory > maps the BIOS supplies the kernel should be sufficient. We have weird corner > cases like ACPI but not handling those in the first pass and getting > something working should be fine.
Agreed.
The next question is who handles the conversion of the various different arch-specific BIOS mappings to a standard format that we can feed to the background "scrub" code. Is this something that belongs in the edac memory controller code, or would it live in /arch/foo somewhere?
Chris
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