Re: Perform minimal RAM test at booty

Orin Eman (orin@nwlink.com)
Tue, 2 Nov 1999 01:30:36 -0800 (PST)

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>
> But it can still do havoc on memory-mapped I/O devices (at least in
> theory, or if you check a region which is I/O but incorrectly
> determined to be memory earlier).
>

The alternative (using the memory-mapped I/O device as regular
memory without checking) is surely worse.

Orin.

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