Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:01:07 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86_64: early memtest to find bad ram |
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Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:58:33 -0700 > Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel.send@gmail.com> wrote: > >> do simple memtest after init_memory_mapping >> >> use find_e820_area_size to find all ram range that is not reserved. > > be careful, there's some special memory that e820 right now says is not reserved, > but still has bios data (the first 4Kb of memory come to mind) >
Is that true even after Yinghai's changes? I have lost track of all the patches...
-hpa
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