alt Hacker NewsNone of the DDR2 and onwards memories have anywhere near enough bandwidth to meet refresh frequency on each bit by you even just reading it in a loop.
The refresh that we do is run in parallel on the memory arrays inside the RAM chips completely bypassing any of the related IO machinery.
And those memory arrays cannot detect access from the bus?
I'm not saying that it's easy or cheap or worthwhile (I'd rather guess it's not in most cases), but I don't see why it couldn't be done.