Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 18:08:03 +0100 From: se@freebsd.org (Stefan Esser) To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) Cc: hans@brandinnovators.com (Hans Zuidam), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bootloader & memory test... Message-ID: <Mutt.19970103180803.se@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> In-Reply-To: <199701021046.CAA27917@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Darren Reed on Jan 2, 1997 21:45:48 %2B1100 References: <199612271048.KAA05227@truk.brandinnovators.com> <199701021046.CAA27917@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Jan 2, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) wrote: > I haven't delved too deeply, but how hard would it be to have the kernel's > idle loop do a memory test ? Besides the point, that it would be very complex to do the right thing if this code ever finds a problem, such a test would guarantee, that the caches are "empty" every time you leave the idle loop. ;) Regards, STefan
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