MCE on AMD64
    Takeharu KATO 
    takeharu1219 at ybb.ne.jp
       
    Sun Feb 27 04:49:43 GMT 2005
    
    
  
Hi
Thank you for your response.
> There is little or no MCE support in either i386 or amd64 kernels.  The code 
> in i386 has never even been tested, because CR4.MCE was never actually turned 
> on.
>
Appearantly, my AMD64 box turn on MCE feature in the CPU.
I will start to try to write MCE feature support functions.
> This would be a good project.  Both i386 and amd64 could benefit from some 
> work here.  Testing it is hard though..  It might take a deliberate attempt 
> to overheat a cpu to trigger a MCE event though...
> 
Regards,
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Takeharu KATO
    
    
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