On 6 Mar 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> I did some tracing of the alpha at power up and it was getting
> read-modify-write cycles when the SROM was zeroing RAM, in an attempt
> to do the ECC setup properly. And it wasn't getting ECC errors.
wait! This means that even the BIOS can't do memory init correctly. That's
an exciting thought.
> I didn't check but the writes are also useless unless you have ECC
> enabled at the time you do them.
makes sense. So my old theory about the kernel covering you were
wrong. This sounds like a needed enhancement to page zero in kernels --
making sure it's write-only.
ron
