Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:15:58 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Stefan Assmann <sassmann@kpanic.de>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com, mingo@elte.hu,
        rick@vanrein.org, rdunlap@xenotime.net, Nancy Yuen <yuenn@google.com>,
        Michael Ditto <mditto@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] support for broken memory modules (BadRAM)
Message-ID: <20110622191558.GI3263@one.firstfloor.org>
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On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:05:07PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 06/22/2011 11:56 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > You'll always have multiple ways. Whatever magic you come up for
> > the google BIOS or for EFI won't help the majority of users with
> > old crufty legacy BIOS.
> > 
> 
> I don't think this has anything to do with this.

Please elaborate.

How would you pass the bad page information instead in a fully backwards
compatible way?

-Andi
-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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