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SubjectRe: 16 MB -> 32 MB, a memory problem resolved!


On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > The point that Ulrich was making was, I think, that Linux should do a
> > read-modify-read cycle on the highest address *that was specified as
> > legal* either by the BIOS or by command-line arguments. That will make
> > problems show up earlier.
>
> Ok so long as its doing that not probing then I would agree with it.

Actually, I've been thinking about adding a "mem=probe" command line type
function, that would enable a probe routine. I've been too lazy to do it
myself, though (hint hint).

A "mem=probe" should work on _most_ machines. But the number of machines
it wouldn't work on is probably significant enough that we definitely do
_not_ want that particular feature to be on by default.

Linus


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