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From: "Doug Thompson" <dthompson@lnxi.com>
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Subject: RE: Problems with EDAC coexisting with BIOS
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> >
> >Does that fix cover the issue as you have discovered it? Or is there
> >more, or another fix you see?
> 
> No, you should return an error from e752x_probe1 if bit5 is cleared
> already.  To do anything else you are assuming that you are privileged
> to have more knowledge about what the BIOS is doing than you should.
> 
> I'll send the patch to e752x_edac.c this weekend.
> 
> --mgross
> 

great. I don't have immediate access to a jarrell mobo at the moment and
definately no access to a manged one.

thanks

doug t