[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) writes:
>
> O.k. So we really do need to initialize ram. The normal write-before read
> of RAM is common enough that we are probably just get lucky and not getting
> any ECC errors. Either that or we have them disabled on the l440gx and don't
> realize it.
>
> However even for 1G of RAM it should only take about a second...
Experimentally confirmed, with 384MB initializing memory with write-combining
enabled, takes about a second on the l440gx. So there is a real cost
here but it isn't much. Compared to the initialization time of drives
I doubt this time is a real problem.
Eric
