On Fri, 2017-07-21 at 15:47 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 10:40:01AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab > wrote: > > What happens when the error can be corrected? Does it still report > > it to userspace, or just silently hide the error? > > > > If I remember well about a past discussion with some vendor, I was > > told that the firmware can hide some errors from being reported. Is > > it still the case? > > I've heard the same thing but I have no idea what they're actually > doing. But it would make sense because the intention is not to worry > users unnecessarily if it can hide the error and if there are no > adverse consequences from it.
Yes, that is correct. Corrected errors are reported to the OS when they exceeded the platform's threshold. Thanks, -Toshi
