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DateWed, 20 Apr 2011 14:23:36 -0500
SubjectRe: Background memory scrubbing
FromBill Gatliff <>
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...


b.g.
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