[LinuxBIOS] problem about dram init

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Thu Dec 20 14:55:51 CET 2007


On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 04:49:32PM +0800, aaron lwe wrote:
> I've configured the via cn700 dram controller
..
> Unexpected Exception: 6 @ 10:1bfee821 - Halting
..
> can I say ram is initialized right?

No. ram_check() is a useless metric.

Until you can successfully run memtest86 as a payload and it reports
zero errors, RAM has not yet been configured correctly.

I think Corey got things going on the CN700, are you working from
his patch?


//Peter




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