Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add iProc IDM device support

[Ray Jui]

On 12/7/19 9:39 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Mon,  2 Dec 2019 15:31:25 -0800
> Ray Jui <ray.jui@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The Broadcom iProc IDM device allows control and monitoring of ASIC internal
> > bus transactions. Most importantly, it can be configured to detect bus
> > transaction timeout. In such case, critical information such as transaction
> > address that caused the error, bus master ID of the transaction that caused
> > the error, and etc., are made available from the IDM device.
>
> This seems to have many of the features of an EDAC device reporting
> uncorrectable errors.
>
> Is there any reason why it is not implemented as such?
>
> Thanks,
>
> 	M.

I thought EDAC errors (in fact, in our case, that's fatal rather than 
uncorrectable) are mostly for DDR. Is my understanding incorrect?

Thanks,

Ray