Re: [PATCH] x86_64: early memtest to find bad ram

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Mar 22 2008 - 08:04:35 EST



* Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > one structural observation: please make this unified functionality,
> > so that 32-bit kernels can make use of it too.
>
> that will need to use PAE to switch 2G windows ....

well, please try some non-PAE, checks-direct-mappings approach - if
someone wants to extend it to the highmem bits i'm sure it will be done.

Ingo
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