27 May
2010
27 May
'10
10 p.m.
Dear Timur Tabi,
In message 4BFECDF7.4070405@freescale.com you wrote:
What if the mapping is too big? Isn't the whole point of get_ram_size() that there is less RAM than we say there is? That is, if there's only 1GB of RAM, and we do this:
get_ram_size() will also detect a number of hardware problems list stuck / swapped / mirrored address lines etc. (actually a pretty large percentage of the real world hardware problems).
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