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SubjectRe: [PATCH] EDAC: Add AMD Seattle SoC EDAC
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 07:36:39PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 06:26:55PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > > Btw, how much of this is implementing generic A57 functionality?
> >
> > The driver is entirely A57 generic.
> >
> > > If a lot, can we make this a generic a57_edac driver so that multiple
> > > vendors can use it?
> >
> > Yes.
>
> Ok, cool.
>
> > > How fast and how ugly can something like that become?
> >
> > Not sure I follow.
>
> In the sense that some vendor might require just a little bit different
> handling or maybe wants to read some vendor-specific registers in
> addition to the architectural ones.
>
> Then we'll start adding vendor-specific hacks to that generic driver.
> And therefore the question how fast and how ugly such hacks would
> become.
>
> I guess we'll worry about that when we get there...
>
> So Brijesh, if you only need generic, architectural functionality,
> please call it arm64_edac or so and let's add it so that other arm64
> vendors can use it too.

Please note that this is specific to Cortex-A57, not ARMv8 or aarch64.

It is an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED feature as implemented by Cortex-A57,
which by definition is not implemented by other CPUs. It is not provided
by the ARM architecture.

So this cannot be arm64_edac, but could potentially be cortex_a57_edac.

Thanks,
Mark.


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