Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Aug 2003 03:22:05 +0100 (BST) | From | Steven Newbury <> | Subject | Re: linux-2.6.0-test2-mm2 with BadRAM patch |
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--- Harold Wheaton <hew@gate.net> wrote: > Hello Steven. My name is Harold and I happened to get your recent > BadRAM patch running on the linux-2.6.0-test2-mm2 kernel. > > I just upgraded to 2.6 today, and since I do have a minor memory > problem, I needed to get BadRAM going. Fortunately I found your post > with the compressed patch (which that one is indeed not corrupt) and got > it in there without any difficulty. It's coming up with the > announcement about "4k BadRAM". > > So far the kernel is rock solid and I've tested games and multimedia, > but I'm not really sure if I'm a great test case. I have 1 gig of RAM > with one intermittently bad bit at around the 250 meg spot, making it > tough to gauge the patch's effectiveness. Also, I am not running > HighMem as I've read that it may expose a dormant bug on these newer > kernels. A bug in BadRAM or the kernel proper? There was/is a bug in the original BadRAM patch with HighMem though it should be fixed in my patch. It might be worth you trying it.
> > I hope this helps in case you are still concerned about the patch. > Thank you for getting it to kernel version 2.6 and I think we all hope > that it can make it in the official baseline at some point so that > regular users will be able to take advantage of it. > -Harold > >
Yes, it does seem to be okay. I had unfortunatly made my system unstable by tweaking the chipset PCI configuration space. The tweaking was stable on 2.4.x so I had assumed it wasn't the problem... it was! 2.6 seems to put more stress on the system (probably due to CPU optimized memcopy's or something similar).
Thankyou for the feedback.
===== Steve
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