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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...
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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