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Date:      Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:05:13 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Markus Gebert <markus.gebert@hostpoint.ch>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 8.1-RC2 - PCI fatal error or MCE triggered by USB/ehci on Sun X4100M2?
Message-ID:  <201007121105.13592.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <44C2C747-5AD8-4B29-B83F-35FCFD3F5858@hostpoint.ch>
References:  <6B57591F-9FA2-45EB-825F-1DB025C0635D@hostpoint.ch> <201007120848.48162.jhb@freebsd.org> <44C2C747-5AD8-4B29-B83F-35FCFD3F5858@hostpoint.ch>

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On Monday, July 12, 2010 9:57:58 am Markus Gebert wrote:
> 
> On 12.07.2010, at 14:48, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> 
> > Hmm with mca disabled in the loader you should not be getting any MCE's at 
all 
> > as we don't enable the MCE interrupt in the CPU in that case.  Are you 
> > disabling it in the BIOS rather than loader.conf?
> 
> I disabled it in loader.conf, just tested again, you're right, it just 
reboots in that case.
> 
> 
> > 7.3 has MCA support, but disabled by default.
> 
> IIRC we also tested 7.3 without being able to reproduce, but I'm not sure 
(didn't do all the tests myself).
> 
> But I guess we can rule out MCA at this point, since we just get a forced 
reboot instead of a panic, right?

Yes.

-- 
John Baldwin



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