Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:58:45 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MCE on AMD64 Message-ID: <200502261958.46361.peter@wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <42210DE2.9060903@ybb.ne.jp> References: <42210DE2.9060903@ybb.ne.jp>
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On Saturday 26 February 2005 04:01 pm, Takeharu KATO wrote: > Hi > > Does anyone work on some hardware abnormaly > checking mechanism using MCE on AMD64? > If someone has this sort of patch, please > tell me where I can obtain it from. > > Regards, There is little or no MCE support in either i386 or amd64 kernels. The code in i386 has never even been tested, because CR4.MCE was never actually turned on. This would be a good project. Both i386 and amd64 could benefit from some work here. Testing it is hard though.. It might take a deliberate attempt to overheat a cpu to trigger a MCE event though... -Peter
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