Re: MCE on AMD64

From: Takeharu KATO <takeharu1219_at_ybb.ne.jp>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:49:39 +0900
Hi

Thank you for your response.
> There is little or no MCE support in either i386 or amd64 kernels.  The code 
> in i386 has never even been tested, because CR4.MCE was never actually turned 
> on.
>
Appearantly, my AMD64 box turn on MCE feature in the CPU.
I will start to try to write MCE feature support functions.


> This would be a good project.  Both i386 and amd64 could benefit from some 
> work here.  Testing it is hard though..  It might take a deliberate attempt 
> to overheat a cpu to trigger a MCE event though...
> 
Regards,
-- 
Takeharu KATO
Received on Sun Feb 27 2005 - 03:49:42 UTC

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