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SubjectRe: Bad memory ... reservation !
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

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.

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