I'm really interested on your comments/suggestions on my patch(1)
based on first Pavel's code.
o It's fast,clean and arch independent
o Detect wrong mem= option and wrong memory size without
GPF anymore but with panic instead
on the other side:
> Note also that the only way to test for memory's presence is to write
> to it & try to read back. This destroys any data which might have been
> put there by the bios.........
If true, this is bad, but can be done also from user space programs after boot no?
Sorry to bother so many busy people but I find very responsible and safer that all
the memory I'll use in user space was previously checked on boot by the kernel.
thanks,
luca
(1) http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/1999week44/1104.html
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