Re: Memory Hardware checker on Linux (userlevel) 2.6

Geronimo W. Christ Esq wrote:
Bernhard Müller wrote:

Is using /dev/mem a viable choice?


No, because you don't know where in physical memory the kernel will have allocated it's pages, or what other memory it is using for caches or buffers.

This task is really not supposed to be done under the OS. Can't you do it in your bootloader instead ?

It should be part of a test suite that also includes several other functions (IO & communications, running on linux) and gives a summary report at the end.
I'd like to do all that in a single run, if possible.

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Bernhard Mueller
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