On Friday, November 05, 2010 12:09:14 pm Thomas Zander wrote: > Dear, > > is there any way to inspect a running STABLE machine for the presence > or state of ECC memory before an MCA "error detected" message actually > occurs? > In comparison when I quickly boot the machine in question with a Linux > live CD, I find (among other EDAC messages) the following output in > its dmesg: > > ... > EDAC amd64: ECC is enabled by BIOS, Proceeding with EDAC module initialization > ... > > During POST, die BIOS also tells me that ECC memory is installed, so > far so good. But I was a little surprised that the FreeBSD kernel > tells me absolutely nothing about it. Or do I have to tune loader.conf > variables?
I think the EDAC register is using the registers for the QPI PCI buses. There is a driver now to export those PCI buses to the OS in 7.x+. However, someone would need to port the EDAC driver (or something similar) to work with those devices. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
