Memory probing

[Peter L. Peres]

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, James Knott wrote:

> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:05:52AM -0400, Terry Tanski wrote:
>> 
>>> Does anyone know a Linux command or method to determine which memory 
>>> slots are being used and possibly what's in them. This is of course on a 
>>> live, running system which I really don't want to bring down just to 
>>> have a peek under the covers.
>> 
>> 
>> What is a 'memory slot'?
>
> I suspect he means the physical slots that you plug memory into.  As far as I 
> know, there's no way to do what he wants.

The I2C way someone else pointed out should work, but afaik, the I2C chips 
in the dimms each reside on a separate I2C bus. Discovering the right bus 
on different chipsets could be interesting and may require register level 
programming info for the motherboard chips.

Peter
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