Re: [PATCH] x86_64: early memtest to find bad ram

[Ingo Molnar]

* Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >  * Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >  > >  one structural observation: please make this unified functionality,
> >  > >  so that 32-bit kernels can make use of it too.
> >  >
> >  > that will need to use PAE to switch 2G windows ....
> >
> >  well, please try some non-PAE, checks-direct-mappings approach - if 
> >  someone wants to extend it to the highmem bits i'm sure it will be 
> >  done.
> 
> OK, First need to move some early_res code from e820_64.c to e820_32.c

yeah, please do that.

> or we can start to merge them. anyone is working on that?

not that i know of - feel free.

	Ingo
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