Re: [patch] SMP alternatives

[thockin]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 04:36:35PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > The current k8
> > code has been delayed for this reason.
> > 
> > Where the EDAC code goes beyond the current k8 facilities is the
> > decode to the dimm level so that the bad memory stick can be
> > easily identified.
> 
> That would be nice to have agreed. But I don't really know
> how to do this without mainboard specific knowledge.
> If you have something usable it's best to port it to mce.c
> or perhaps mcelog

I'm curious about that too.  Even with k8 you can get down to a
chip-select, but that doesn't necessarily map to a DIMM in any useful way,
unless you have some mobo knowledge.  Are we going to need a new BIOS
table to map chip-selects onto DIMMs? :)

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