Fair warning: Removing MCA

[Sergey V. Dyatko]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 00:51:17 -0700
Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote: 

> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 12:25 AM, Sergey V. Dyatko
> <sergey.dyatko at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 16:46:58 -0700
> > Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> >  
> >> I plan on removing the MCA bus support on or around Feb 15th. Please
> >> let me know if you are running any of these devices on FreeBSD 10 or
> >> newer.
> >>
> >> Warner  
> >
> > Good day,
> >
> > now I see messages like
> >
> > Jan 26 17:52:28 st7 kernel: MCA: Bank 7, Status 0xcc0004c000010091
> > Jan 26 17:52:28 st7 kernel: MCA: Global Cap 0x0000000007000c16, Status
> > 0x0000000000000000 Jan 26 17:52:28 st7 kernel: MCA: Vendor "GenuineIntel",
> > ID 0x306f2, APIC ID 0 Jan 26 17:52:28 st7 kernel: MCA: CPU 0 COR (19) OVER
> > RD channel 1 memory error Jan 26 17:52:28 st7 kernel: MCA: Address
> > 0x2e455cf700 Jan 26 17:52:28 st7 kernel: MCA: Misc 0x152161686
> > Jan 26 17:52:28 st7 kernel: MCA: Bank 10, Status 0xcc000d43000800c1
> > Jan 26 17:52:28 st7 kernel: MCA: Global Cap 0x0000000007000c16, Status
> > 0x0000000000000000 Jan 26 17:52:28 st7 kernel: MCA: Vendor "GenuineIntel",
> > ID 0x306f2, APIC ID 0 Jan 26 17:52:28 st7 kernel: MCA: CPU 0 COR (53) OVER
> > MS channel 1 memory error Jan 26 17:52:28 st7 kernel: MCA: Address
> > 0x2e455cf640 Jan 26 17:52:28 st7 kernel: MCA: Misc 0x2439e2002200068c
> >
> > this messages are dissapered after ~ Feb, 15 ? If "yes" how do I know
> > that a problem exists ?  
> 
> This is a different MCA. That's Machine Check Architecture. I'm not
> messing with that at all....
> 
> I'm talking about Micro Channel Architecture cards from the old ps/1
> and ps/2 machines.
> 
> Warner

Roger that. Thanks for the clarification

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wbr, Sergey