[PATCH] Display progress during getmemsize() so the kernel doesn't look like it hanged

[Garrett Cooper]

On Jan 16, 2015, at 7:02, Patrick Powell <papowell at astart.com> wrote:

> On 01/14/15 22:59, Allan Jude wrote:
>> Glad to see this, thanks for doing the work Ravi. Also, I agree with jhb@, we should disable the test by default in stable/10 (i think it is off by default only for VMs currently). 
> 
> Please please do not disable memory tests by default.  If you do, when trying to boot from a CD/Memory Stick
> image on a system with bad memory (which would be found by the tests) then it gets quite difficult to find this
> problem.
> 
> You need to have some boot level option setting experience/wizardry to set the flags during boot.
> 
> Also this information should be added to the Hardware or Install portion of the FreeBSD Handbook.
> 
> I have vivid memories to trying to boot up a system with bad memory.

Or… turn it off by default and provide an option in the boot loader to turn it on manually?
Cheers!
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