Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:23:36 -0500 | | Subject | Re: Background memory scrubbing | | From | Bill Gatliff <> |
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Ladisch:
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> wrote: > Which hardware platform is this? AFAICT all architectures with ECC > (old AMD64, Family 0Fh, Family 10h) also have scrubbing support. > If your BIOS is too dumb, just try enabling it directly (bits 0-4 of > PCI configuration register 0x58 in function 3 of the CPU's northbridge > device, see the BIOS and Kernel's Developer's Guide for details).
That won't help non-AMD64 platforms that want to scrub.
Is there a way to make Robert's approach work? I'm aware of a few non-AMD64, somewhat-exotic platforms that require scrubbing the way that Robert is proposing...
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