Hi, Maxim Kammerer wrote (26 Dec 2011 01:09:19 GMT) : > Well, I didn't, and that was my mistake. I assumed that when kernel > developers claim to do a memory test, they do a *memory* test, not > a test of whatever-RAM-we-can-easily-access-atm — so I only checked > that memtest correctly wipes RAM. Turns out that only LOWMEM is > tested, which is <= 896 MiB (see http://linux-mm.org/HighMemory).
Ok. I'm glad there's an explanation eventually. > I will file a kernel bug report, and see if the kernel developers > can be convinced to map HIGHMEM with kmap() (as is apparently > necessary) for memtest. Please be kind enough to forward us the bug report URL once it's been filed: I'm obviously interested in tracking how far this goes. While we're at it, I would consider it only fair if that sentence, that can be found on the Liberté Linux homepage, was promptly fixed: "Liberté also correctly implements other features, such as wiping memory in order to prevent cold boot attacks, whereas Tails uses the simplistic sdmem, which erases at most 3 GiB of memory on a standard 32-bit kernel." (Yeah, I've seen the warning on top of the page, but still.) Regards, -- intrigeri <intrig...@boum.org> | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc | Did you exchange a walk on part in the war | for a lead role in the cage? _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
