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1	March 2008
2	Jan-Simon Moeller, dl9pf@gmx.de
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5	How to deal with bad memory e.g. reported by memtest86+ ?
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8	There are three possibilities I know of:
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10	1) Reinsert/swap the memory modules
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12	2) Buy new modules (best!) or try to exchange the memory
13	   if you have spare-parts
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15	3) Use BadRAM or memmap
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17	This Howto is about number 3) .
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20	BadRAM
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22	BadRAM is the actively developed and available as kernel-patch
23	here:  http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/
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25	For more details see the BadRAM documentation.
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27	memmap
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30	memmap is already in the kernel and usable as kernel-parameter at
31	boot-time.  Its syntax is slightly strange and you may need to
32	calculate the values by yourself!
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34	Syntax to exclude a memory area (see kernel-parameters.txt for details):
35	memmap=<size>$<address>
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37	Example: memtest86+ reported here errors at address 0x18691458, 0x18698424 and
38	         some others. All had 0x1869xxxx in common, so I chose a pattern of
39	         0x18690000,0xffff0000.
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41	With the numbers of the example above:
42	memmap=64K$0x18690000
43	 or
44	memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
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