Re: ECC RAM ?

[Ronald G Minnich]

On 6 Mar 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Theory says that you need to initialize ECC ram to all zeros before any
> reads occur.  In practice this doesn't seem to be needed.  I have observed
> this on both the L440GX and on the alpha DS10.

and besides, the kernel does it for you every time it allocates a page. No
init needed, except for dogs like dos.

ron