Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 6 Oct 2001 22:52:05 +0200 (CEST) | From | Martin Josefsson <> | Subject | Re: Bad memory ... reservation ! |
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On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Patrick Allaire wrote:
> > Hi all, > > I am currently working on a small embedded gaming box wich run linux ... but > I have a small problem. We have a demo to give on tuesday and the box isnt > booting pass the kernel, we have found for sure that this is due to an > hardware bug of the second bank of memory. We have 16MB of memory in the box > ... is there a way to reserve the 4-8MB so linux des not try to go there. > Since this is an hardware bug, we will have to redo our silicons, but they > wont be ready for this week... > > what the best way to tell linux to jump over this bad memory ? command line > ? hack in the mm ? > > I am using kernel 2.4.9.
You might be able to use the BadRAM patches from http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/
/Martin
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