Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Apr 1996 17:58:17 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: 16 MB -> 32 MB, and highest memory address probing |
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On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Michael K. Johnson 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.
i would suggest to do this after mem_init(), since thats the last chance to completely lock a memory area. (for any weird reason like a device mapped into valid main memory or a broken motherboard).
-- mingo
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