> Hmm. As long as you have the information to describe your hardware I
> don't see the problem. What is the problem with rewriting memory?
Not rewriting it, reinitializing it ... jumping down to the controller and telling it
you have 4 x 64Mbyte sticks installed ... upon that initialisation (from what I
understand of it all), your RAM gets blanked.
> I do it everyday when I boot linux from linux, and I have no problems.
Not at this level though ...
> No. With older kernels that don't have support for doing the
> intialization themselves I can see it happening.
Older kernels shouldn't be a problem with what I'm talking about ... if Day-1
Kern+LB comes with either Kern-to-Kern boot detection or Boot Param knowledge
or Hardware-pre-config detection then backward compatibility with such functions
won't ever be an issue (as it doesn't affect currently un-LinuxBios-ed kernels).
Its just the idea of a ruthless "I'm here, now lets start with that memory" attitude
from
the kernel that I think will be a wee bit problematic .. when the universe is
considered.
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