Re: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac

From: Kani, Toshimitsu
Date: Tue Jul 18 2017 - 12:44:18 EST


On Tue, 2017-07-18 at 10:24 -0600, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:
> On 7/18/2017 9:36 AM, Kani, Toshimitsu wrote:
> > On Tue, 2017-07-18 at 08:39 -0600, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:
> > > On 7/17/2017 3:59 PM, Toshi Kani wrote:
> > > > The ghes_edac driver was introduced in 2013 [1], but it has not
> > > > been enabled by any distro yet.
> > >
> > > Ubuntu is expected to enable this soon.
> >
> > Interesting.ÂÂI was told from other distro that there were many
> > buggy firmwares out there that prevented to enable ghes_edac.ÂÂDo
> > you know if Ubuntu has any plan to address such issue?ÂÂOr do they
> > not see such issue?ÂÂI do not test with other vendors' platforms,
> > so I cannot tell exactly what those bugs are...
> >
>
> I do not know if Ubuntu intends to address any "known issues".ÂÂI
> know aÂrequest was made to Canonical to enable the option, and it
> appears the request is being considered, although the option may be
> limited toÂARM64, depending on how Canonical's evaluation goes.ÂÂI am
> not aware of any particular issues, so I cannot say what the side
> effects are, or what platforms are considered to exhibit such issues.

I see. Thanks for the info! I hope someone from Canonical is on the
list.
-Toshi