Re: MCE on AMD64

From: Doug White <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:59:41 -0800 (PST)
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Takeharu KATO wrote:

> 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.

Make sure you test your code on a Rioworks HDAMA-based AMD64 if you get
the chance. I turned on MCE on our 2.4.25 Linux i386 kernels and they
trapped during the boot.  Apparently there's something goofy with that
board (or Opteron 244 processors?) and MCE.

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Received on Tue Mar 01 2005 - 03:59:42 UTC

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