=?gb2312?b?tPC4tA==?=: Large mmio resources and 4G+ of RAM...

ron minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Wed Jun 2 08:38:54 CEST 2004


On 1 Jun 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Unless you spend days at it you cannot do a good memory check/test. I
> don't want to wait days while my system boots.  A cursory check That
> verifies the memory doesn't totally suck is ok.  But I don't want to see
> anything that conveys the impression that LinuxBIOS has actually checked
> the memory.

yes, bios memory tests are completely useless, have only found a memory 
error for me when the DIMM was half out of its socket!

ron




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