ECC support

[Xin Li]

On 09/15/15 13:53, Dieter BSD wrote:
> I've been running machines with ECC for 15-20 years and have never seen
> a report of an ECC error from either NetBSD or FreeBSD.  I have seen
> reports of ECC errors from Digital Unix.  And remember getting panics
> due to parity errors on machines before ECC.  So I'm thinking that
> the BSDs must ignore hardware reports of single bit ECC errors.  :-(

I'm not sure about NetBSD but FreeBSD supports reporting ECC errors (via
Machine Check Architecture, added in 2009), and yes we have seen it in
field.

Cheers,
-- 
Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>    https://www.delphij.net/
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