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From: Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: memory probing
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 11:24:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y8an4emu.fsf@student.han.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050510085058.DEF762FAC4@smtp.263.net> (coly li's message of "Tue, 10 May 2005 16:50:51 +0800")

"coly li" <colyli@263.net> writes:

> write and verify means: you read the content from location X, and
> change the value, then write back to location X; then re-read the
> content from X, if the value is what you write, the location X is
> valid; otherwise, maybe the location X is invalid.

This sounds dangerous to me, what if you are writing to memory mapped
I/O?  I think you can get the amount of memory from the processor, no?

--
Marco




  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-10  9:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-10  8:50 Re: Fwd: memory probing coly li
2005-05-10  9:24 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
2005-05-10 10:23   ` alfred hitch
2005-05-10 12:13     ` Stefan Reinauer
2005-05-11  2:11       ` alfred hitch
2005-05-11  4:39         ` Douglas Wade Needham
2005-05-11  7:47           ` alfred hitch
2005-05-11 17:09             ` Douglas Wade Needham
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-10  7:37 coly li
2005-05-10  8:33 ` alfred hitch

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