[PATCH] Machine Check Architecture on amd64

Suleiman Souhlal ssouhlal at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jul 3 01:11:04 UTC 2007


On Jul 2, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Takeharu KATO wrote:

> Hi
>
>> Actually, I looked at the documentation for Intel E7501 chipset,  
>> and it seems like it also has a hardware scrubber: See http:// 
>> download.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/25192702.pdf section  
>> 5.8.2.
>> So, supposedly, other Intel chipsets for servers might also have it.
>>
> Oh, this chipset has automatic memory scrubber certainly.
> I did not know that.
>
> But as far as I think, it is more preferable to support memory scrub
> with software for other chipsets since MCH facility is supported by  
> CPU.
> What do you think about it?

Feel free to provide patches. :-)

-- Suleiman


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