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

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Sat Mar 22 2008 - 13:00:10 EST


On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * 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.

OK, First need to move some early_res code from e820_64.c to e820_32.c

or we can start to merge them. anyone is working on that?

YH
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