hi all,I think it is a very good idea, especially since it does not affect performance. Does it prevent kernel crashing if the memory is defective too ?
after a horrendous weekend dealing with faulty memory modules I think it would be very nice to have the badram kernel patch officially included in the mdk kernel:
http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/
The patch prevents the kernel from accessing identified bad memory regions (probably found by memtest86) and thus allows to further use those bad memory modules instead of littering them.
I have a patch ready for the current 2.4.21-6 kernel, so if anybody is interested, I'll post it here.
happy hacking
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Eric
