ECC support

[Allan Jude]

On 2015-09-15 17:02, Xin Li wrote:
> On 09/15/15 13:53, Dieter BSD wrote:
>> I've been running machines with ECC for 15-20 years and have never seen
>> a report of an ECC error from either NetBSD or FreeBSD.  I have seen
>> reports of ECC errors from Digital Unix.  And remember getting panics
>> due to parity errors on machines before ECC.  So I'm thinking that
>> the BSDs must ignore hardware reports of single bit ECC errors.  :-(
> 
> I'm not sure about NetBSD but FreeBSD supports reporting ECC errors (via
> Machine Check Architecture, added in 2009), and yes we have seen it in
> field.
> 
> Cheers,
> 

Yes, I have seen MCA errors in the field as well. So it does work.

-- 
Allan Jude

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