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

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Jul 19 2017 - 02:01:11 EST


On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 10:13:42PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> Historically we've had complaints that sb_edac won't load that have been
> tracked to BIOS hiding one of the (many) PCI devices that it needs. But
> device hiding is orthogonal to providing GHES error records. A BIOS might
> do that, but I don't know that anyone intentionally does so.

Yeah, the hiding-devices path doesn't look like the optimal one. I think we
should look at the firmware-first setting and load ghes if FF is being done by
the firmware.

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Boris.

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