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

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:56:27 +0000
"Kani, Toshimitsu" <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx> escreveu:

> On Mon, 2017-07-24 at 17:37 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 03:25:34PM +0000, Kani, Toshimitsu wrote:  
>  :
> >   
> > > We've been providing this model for many years now.  
> > 
> > Dude, relax, I'm only trying to point out to you that there are
> > customers who want to see *every* error and thus track how their
> > hardware behaves. And that for those customers it is probably worth
> > considering exposing that info and providing a switch to disable that
> > dumbing of the RAS functionality in the BIOS so that people can
> > decide for themselves. That's all.  
> 
> Yes, Mauro has already pointed this out.  As I replied to him, we do
> have a separate series of platforms that do not have built-in RAS, and
> report all errors. ÂSuch customers can simply choose them.  They do not
> need to pay for built-in RAS.

That's probably too late for me as I received a new HP machine
we bought just last week, but for the next time I would need to
get a new hardware, what would be the non-RAS equivalent to
a ML 350 G9 tower-mounted machine with two Xeon v4 CPUs and iLO?

Regards,
Mauro

> 
> The model w/ built-in RAS provides warranty & full support.  As I said,
> it's a different model. 
> 
> Thanks,
> -Toshi



Thanks,
Mauro