On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 14:41:11 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 13:55:53 +0530, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How is this question:
> > (a) anything to do with Linux?
> Yes, it has to do with Linux. I use Linux on my laptop and am palnning
> to add more RAM to it. Will Linux panic when it sees a combination of
> two RAM capacities ( 256 + 512) from two vendors, 256 from HP and 512
> from Kingston/Samsung.
If there is incompatibility, it is the hardware that would panic.
Linux is at a higher level in the stack to care who the vendor who
made the RAM is. BIOS is called BIOS because it is the one that
translates basic IO between the kernel and the hardware.
Thaths
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