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DateSat, 22 Apr 2006 19:31:32 +0100
FromTim Small <>
SubjectRe: Problems with EDAC coexisting with BIOS
Gross, Mark wrote:

>You can never predict when a SMI will bubble through the system.  Even
>if you handle case where the BIOS re-hides Dev0:Fun1 and not panic how
>do you deal with the race between the BIOS SMI based handling and the
>driver?  Who will end up reading (and clearing) the error registers
>first?  There is no good way to share today.
> 
>
You could (at least from memory, on certain chipsets) modify the error 
reporting registers so that an SMI is no longer generated as a result of 
MC ECC errors.  True, this doesn't fix many of the other problems 
related to this issue, but would be useful in a "modprobe xyz_edac 
force_unhide_MC_PCI=1" case.

Closed-source BIOSes eh?  Who needs em ;-p.

Tim.

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