Athlon64 board with ECC support?

Jose M Rodriguez josemi at freebsd.jazztel.es
Fri Jun 24 13:48:32 GMT 2005


El Viernes, 24 de Junio de 2005 15:34, David O'Brien escribió:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 06:18:56PM -0400, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> > And I suppose the BIOS needs to support it, too,
>
> Correct.
>
> > although it is not
> > clear to me how ECC exceptions are supposed to be routed anyway.
> > Clearly some chip not being CPU or RAM needs to have a say in the
> > exception delivery? Anybody understands how this works?
>
> Why??  The memory controller is on the same die as the CPU.  The
> exception is handled w/in the CPU and it never goes out to any
> support chip.

Are you sure the mem. controller in the CPU is not configured/affected 
by GPIO bits in the southbridge?

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  josemi


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