Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] ARM Error Source Table V2 Support

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Feb 19 2025 - 15:33:38 EST


On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 04:42:23PM +0800, Ruidong Tian wrote:
> AEST provides a mechanism for hardware to directly notify Kernel to
> handle RAS errors through interrupts, which is also known as Kernel-first
> mode.

Kernel first? Srsly? No? Oh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFjSDM6D500

So what, folks realized finally that firmware-first is simply a stinking pile,
after a decade or so.

> AEST's Advantage
> ========================
>
> 1. AEST uses EL1 interrupts to report CE/DE, making it more lightweight
> than GHES (the Firmware First solution on Arm).

ROTFL.

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