Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3175 mails)

[Sunny <sloncho@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Roland,

On 4/7/07, devzero@xxxxxx <devzero@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Svetoslav ,
>
> i think you`re not alone.  :)
>
> anyway, i`d recommend posting that question to LKML to just "make some noise" regarding BadRAM - to show that there is user demand for that.

Looks like its not how it works, i.e. the author have to make some
commitment to support the feature in the kernel, at least thats how I
understand it.

> furthermore, i recommend asking the BadRam author why he is maintaining a patch outside the main kernel for years now without ever trying to request inclusion of his patch. one more  problem is, that there is no transparent BadRAM "community" because of missing badram mailinglist/forum. i contacted the author more than once and he told he would prepare it for inclusion, but it`s very calm regarding this for months now and he seems he has more important things to do.

He says on his site that he is willing to, but ... something :)

> there was also someone (Pavel Machek) at LKML recommending exactmap - see http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117325832231712&w=2 - but that information is absolutely useless to the end user, if nobody in this world knows how to translate badram patterns into memmap params.

Yes, I already found this, but I could not find any more details on
the topic, so now I have to deal with returning the memory, and
waiting. Good that this is new and I still can return it. I'd prefer
just to save myself the hassle.

> >Also, as from the BadRAM's page I see that some distros do include this support, maybe it will be nice if opensuse can include
> >this as well.
>
> often, distros adapt special kernel patches before they go into mainline, but it`s always better to have a kernel feature in mainline than having it distro specific.
>
> regards
> roland

Thanks again,

--
Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)

Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the ignorant is just
a pile of scrap.
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