From 2c79dcafd8ecdfd44ee4c509a9c55785b022eba9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:20:27 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] docs: Get rid of the badRAM guide
The last release of this tool was for 2.6.28; it's hard to see how it has
any relevance to current kernels.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Documentation/admin-guide/bad-memory.rst | 50 ------------------------
Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst | 1 -
2 files changed, 51 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/bad-memory.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/bad-memory.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/bad-memory.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index a5c0e25e496ff9..00000000000000
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/bad-memory.rst
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@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-How to deal with bad memory e.g. reported by memtest86+ ?
-=========================================================
-
-March 2008
-Jan-Simon Moeller, dl9pf@gmx.de
-
-
-
-There are three possibilities I know of:
-
-1) Reinsert/swap the memory modules
-
-2) Buy new modules (best!) or try to exchange the memory
- if you have spare-parts
-
-3) Use BadRAM or memmap
-
-This Howto is about number 3) .
-
-
-BadRAM
-######
-
-BadRAM is the actively developed and available as kernel-patch
-here: http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/
-
-For more details see the BadRAM documentation.
-
-memmap
-######
-
-memmap is already in the kernel and usable as kernel-parameter at
-boot-time. Its syntax is slightly strange and you may need to
-calculate the values by yourself!
-
-Syntax to exclude a memory area (see admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst for details)::
-
- memmap=<size>$<address>
-
-Example: memtest86+ reported here errors at address 0x18691458, 0x18698424 and
-some others. All had 0x1869xxxx in common, so I chose a pattern of
-0x18690000,0xffff0000.
-
-With the numbers of the example above::
-
- memmap=64K$0x18690000
-
-or::
-
- memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
index 2ce2bf02824bb8..d737ae71efc6bf 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
@@ -58,5 +58,4 @@ configure specific aspects of kernel behavior to your liking.
binfmt-misc
mono
java
- bad-memory
basic-profiling
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