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On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:30:15AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> how should it be done at OS level at all when the OS is loaded 
> into RAM?

Copy the kernel to the video RAM, jump to it, enable ECC, copy back.

Joerg