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List:       linux-ecc
Subject:    Re: [ecc] Re: Anyone working on ECC for the 2.6.x kernel?
From:       Brian Somers <brian.somers () sun ! com>
Date:       2005-02-01 13:37:18
Message-ID: 41FF860E.4060704 () sun ! com
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Jaakko Hyvätti wrote:
>   Hi Steffen,
> 
>   We had back then some discussions on user level applications to do the
> job.  I created a quick perl script to read AMD64 CPU integrated
> northbridge registers.  Attached is that script.  It just dumps all
> registers with names and descriptions of each bit.  It can already be used
> to check for errors as such, and for proper ecc setup, but needs proper
> syndrome code decoding still.
> 
>   I have no time right now to continue this but feel free to pick this up,
> it is GPL.
> 
>   It is also at http://www.iki.fi/hyvatti/sw/ .
> 
> Jaakko

An interesting thought, but it may be tricky to handle scrubbing with
this sort of approach.  Personally I think it's better to keep the
driver model with the aim of hooking it up to any NMI interface that
comes along.

-- 
Brian Somers


 
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