From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Dec 28 17:13: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1079B14C95 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 17:13:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA04995; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 17:18:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912290118.RAA04995@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Lance Costanzo Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ECC RAM useless with FreeBSD? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Dec 1999 15:48:12 PST." <3.0.32.19991228154805.006cc640@costanzo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 17:18:05 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I guess the question is- > Is not being able to log memory errors a problem with the PC hardware > being inadequate, or feature missing from the operating system? I'm fairly sure that most of the chipsets on the market at the moment that support ECC also support notifying the OS. We don't have any support for any of these (but would happily integrate it if someone were to come up with such a beast). -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message