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Date:      Tue, 15 Sep 2015 17:19:28 -0400
From:      Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ECC support
Message-ID:  <55F88B60.3050807@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <55F8874A.9030807@delphij.net>
References:  <CAA3ZYrBXZn1WpHWYGJYWJDPsk7iDahCas8RhnHC4w%2Babf4w4hA@mail.gmail.com> <55F8874A.9030807@delphij.net>

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On 2015-09-15 17:02, Xin Li wrote:
> On 09/15/15 13:53, Dieter BSD wrote:
>> I've been running machines with ECC for 15-20 years and have never see=
n
>> a report of an ECC error from either NetBSD or FreeBSD.  I have seen
>> reports of ECC errors from Digital Unix.  And remember getting panics
>> due to parity errors on machines before ECC.  So I'm thinking that
>> the BSDs must ignore hardware reports of single bit ECC errors.  :-(
>=20
> I'm not sure about NetBSD but FreeBSD supports reporting ECC errors (vi=
a
> Machine Check Architecture, added in 2009), and yes we have seen it in
> field.
>=20
> Cheers,
>=20

Yes, I have seen MCA errors in the field as well. So it does work.

--=20
Allan Jude


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