From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757014Ab0JYRHn (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:07:43 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f46.google.com ([209.85.215.46]:36654 "EHLO mail-ew0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752764Ab0JYRHj (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:07:39 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=UzQGCbAXoWyDbVQtzV+OA9QHwVRe/cU1i3KNPsLMtw3L6H3DS+0oDw7veCEp5kZGf2 GKLfZh/JwItxl667cfkFv4b6BsatDe1B2/yFb0PVl9EfZDtr5JeFlm58yCEDoNnRrMys v2hVp+PpW/pjaTMqfG4C7YrfJVGrQPt5MRch8= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4CC5726B.1020207@redhat.com> References: <1287992610-14996-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> <1287992610-14996-10-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> <20101025084553.GA27119@elte.hu> <1287997112.2862.322.camel@yhuang-dev> <20101025091913.GA17622@basil.fritz.box> <20101025111530.GA27659@elte.hu> <4CC5726B.1020207@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:07:36 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [NAK] Re: [PATCH -v2 9/9] ACPI, APEI, Generic Hardware Error Source POLL/IRQ/NMI notification type support From: Tony Luck To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , Huang Ying , Len Brown , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" , Borislav Petkov , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Don Zickus , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Ven , Borislav Petkov Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > We had some discussions with Intel during the Collaboration summit about that, trying to > integrate Nehalem EX on such environment, with, unfortunately, didn't happen, as Intel > didn't release any (public) datasheet describing Nehalem EX memory controller, nor wrote > such driver. The chipset registers that are needed to write an EDAC driver for Nehalem-EX (a.k.a Xeon 7500 series) are not accessible to OS (ring 0) code. Documenting them wouldn't change this. > As most of us will be in Boston next week, I've reserved a BoF at Plumbers for us to discuss > about this subject: > > http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010/ocw/proposals/921 An excellent idea. See you there. -Tony