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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
0@corteximplant.com ("ghosts in the silicon ▒") wrote:

hey remember that RAM that tested bad and that we removed from our laptop in january?

turns out memtest86+ has a mode that outputs the linux memmap kernel parameter one needs to mark the bad memory as reserved!

this param tells the kernel not to use these 8 bytes at address 0xa3195e670 for normal memory allocation
neat!