Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:07:36 -0700 | Subject | Re: [NAK] Re: [PATCH -v2 9/9] ACPI, APEI, Generic Hardware Error Source POLL/IRQ/NMI notification type support | From | Tony Luck <> |
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On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> wrote: > We had some discussions with Intel during the Collaboration summit about that, trying to > integrate Nehalem EX on such environment, with, unfortunately, didn't happen, as Intel > didn't release any (public) datasheet describing Nehalem EX memory controller, nor wrote > such driver.
The chipset registers that are needed to write an EDAC driver for Nehalem-EX (a.k.a Xeon 7500 series) are not accessible to OS (ring 0) code. Documenting them wouldn't change this.
> As most of us will be in Boston next week, I've reserved a BoF at Plumbers for us to discuss > about this subject: > > http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010/ocw/proposals/921
An excellent idea. See you there.
-Tony
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