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From: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
To: "Gross, Mark" <mark.gross@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Problems with EDAC coexisting with BIOS
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 23:13:06 +0200
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Hi Mark,

On Friday, 21. April 2006 18:01, Gross, Mark wrote:
> I'm sorry to have to bring up these issues after a fare amount of good
> work, and I don't know how this problem managed to get by for as long as
> it has, but there are some issues with the EDAC and the BIOS for managed
> computer systems.

Can this condition be detected via DMI?

Then you could implement a whitelist or blacklist
and a module parameter to override it.


Regards

Ingo Oeser