[LinuxBIOS] problem about dram init

aaron lwe aaron.lwe at gmail.com
Fri Dec 21 03:26:36 CET 2007


On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 10:34:15PM +0800, aaron lwe wrote:
>* //Until you can successfully run memtest86 as a payload and it reports
*>* //zero errors, RAM has not yet been configured correctly.
*>*
*>* OK, I get it. Thanks.
*>* Memtest86 reports errors at memory address
*>* 1MB, 5MB, 9MB, 13MB, 17MB, ... not sure what's wrong.
*
// Many addresses around there or only exactly 1MB, 5MB etc?

It's exactly at 1MB, 5MB, etc, I captured the errors as following:
Tst  Pass   Fail������������������������������  Bad     Err-Bits  Count Chan
---  ----  -----������������������������������--------  --------  ----- ----

  0     0  00006d00000 -   109.0MB  00000000  ffffffff  0ed00000      1
  0     0  00006d00000 -   109.0MB  00000000  ffffffff  16d00000      1
  0     0  00007100000 -   113.0MB  00000000  ffffffff  0f100000      1

  0     0  00007100000 -   113.0MB  00000000  ffffffff  17100000      1
  0     0  00007500000 -   117.0MB  00000000  ffffffff  0f500000      1
  0     0  00007500000 -   117.0MB  00000000  ffffffff  17500000      1

  0     0  00007900000 -   121.0MB  00000000  ffffffff  0f900000      1
  0     0  00007900000 -   121.0MB  00000000  ffffffff  17900000      1
  0     0  00007d00000 -   125.0MB  00000000  ffffffff  0fd00000      1

  0     0  00007d00000 -   125.0MB  00000000  ffffffff  17d00000      1


memtest crashed when it's doing own address test.
after examing the log file I found that the biggest address that it
displayed error is at 0x7d00000(125MB), any addresses above 125MB are ok.
the smallest address is at 0x20000(128KB).
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