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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] support for broken memory modules (BadRAM)
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> The fully backward compatible way is "memmap=<address>$<length>".

This doesn't really work for patterns. badmem is about making patterns/
strides/etc.  work as far as I understand. Those are very common
with modern interleaving schemes.

Please read the original patchkit and its documentation.

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