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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:23:36 -0500 From: Bill Gatliff <bgat@...lgatliff.com> To: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@...isch.de> Cc: rwhitton@....org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Background memory scrubbing Ladisch: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Clemens Ladisch <clemens@...isch.de> wrote: > Which hardware platform is this? AFAICT all architectures with ECC > (old AMD64, Family 0Fh, Family 10h) also have scrubbing support. > If your BIOS is too dumb, just try enabling it directly (bits 0-4 of > PCI configuration register 0x58 in function 3 of the CPU's northbridge > device, see the BIOS and Kernel's Developer's Guide for details). That won't help non-AMD64 platforms that want to scrub. Is there a way to make Robert's approach work? I'm aware of a few non-AMD64, somewhat-exotic platforms that require scrubbing the way that Robert is proposing... b.g. -- Bill Gatliff bgat@...lgatliff.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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