Athlon64 board with ECC support?

[Martin Cracauer]

David O'Brien wrote on Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 06:34:57AM -0700: 
> 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.

Hm, so what does the BIOS do if it has the ECC options, exactly?

Does it set defaults in the CPU itself? If so it should be possible to
inspect and mess with these settings after startup?

Martin
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