>>>>> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:11:20 -0600, Robin Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Robin> We saw many silent data corruptions. The SN2 hardware will
Robin> give an MCA if both types of references are made by the cpu
Robin> at about the same time, but that depends on both transactions
Robin> being on the bus in close relationship to each other.
Yes, but the point is it affects _most_ of today's machines, including
x86. A while ago, there were some nasty data corruption issues on AMD
chips caused by the AGP GART and the large mappings used by the Linux
kernel, for example.
--david
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