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Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 22:18:33 +0000 (UTC)
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Subject: Re: Reserving physical memory at boot time
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On 3 Dec 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 21:11, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > If you need a certain page reserved at boot-time you are out-of-luck.
>
> Wrong - you can specify the precise memory map of a box as well as use
> mem= to set the top of used memory. Its a painful way of marking a page
> and it only works for a page the kernel isnt loaded into.

short question - is it also possible to mark some "bad addresses" in a
quite similar way ? I know RAM is cheep these days but...

Memory with just one bad address or two would be good enough to be
able to use them in a desktop pc again if the kernel could make sure
that these addresses will never be accessed/used from anyone.

Next step for HA in servers then would be a memory raid ;-) but for
sure big blue holds some patents on this :(

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