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Date:      Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:49:39 +0900
From:      Takeharu KATO <takeharu1219@ybb.ne.jp>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MCE on AMD64
Message-ID:  <42215163.1000802@ybb.ne.jp>
In-Reply-To: <200502261958.46361.peter@wemm.org>
References:  <42210DE2.9060903@ybb.ne.jp> <200502261958.46361.peter@wemm.org>

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Hi

Thank you for your response.
> 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.
>
Appearantly, my AMD64 box turn on MCE feature in the CPU.
I will start to try to write MCE feature support functions.


> 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...
> 
Regards,
-- 
Takeharu KATO



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