Athlon64 board with ECC support?

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Fri Jun 24 13:35:14 GMT 2005


On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 06:18:56PM -0400, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> And I suppose the BIOS needs to support it, too, 

Correct.

> although it is not
> clear to me how ECC exceptions are supposed to be routed anyway.
> Clearly some chip not being CPU or RAM needs to have a say in the
> exception delivery? Anybody understands how this works?

Why??  The memory controller is on the same die as the CPU.  The
exception is handled w/in the CPU and it never goes out to any support
chip.

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