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Date:      Wed, 22 May 2019 13:25:39 -0700
From:      Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r348109 - in head/sys/x86: include x86
Message-ID:  <CAG6CVpXYhHT0gpJF2H_gKNJ0gcCkMwZyKP_d8EwWGUX5LgXTng@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 12:59 PM John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 5/22/19 12:12 PM, Conrad Meyer wrote:
> > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 11:06 AM Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 22/05/2019 16:44, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> >>>   This is needed for AMD SMCA processors, as SMCA uses different
> >>>   MSR address for access MCA banks.
> >>
> >> Just curious, what is SMCA?
> >
> > Scalable MCA.  It's a set of AMD Fam17h MCA extensions.
>
> How is it different aside from using different MSR numbers (which seems
> a bit gratuitous if that is really all the change is).
>
> --
> John Baldwin
>
It adds new MSRs as well, though those are not present in this first
change.  And adds some information not representable in the =E2=80=9Clegacy=
=E2=80=9D MSRs.
Some more detail can be found in the linux patches, eg
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/655889/ .



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