Re: + edac-new-opteron-athlon64-memory-controller-driver.patch added to -mm tree

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 01:09:35PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > Then anything with MMIO or interrupts or anything dynamic 
> > definitely belongs into kernel space agreed.
> 
> Yep we sometimes have to mess with MMIO.

Not on K8 at least, no? 

Maybe we should discuss each chipset separatedly :)

> 
> > But at least on K8 DIMM inventory is purely reading PCI config space on
> > something that doesn't change and doesn't need any locking. 
> > It also doesn't need to do anything complicated, but just look
> > for the right PCI ID.
> 
> Mostly.  Except for the part where you have to figure out the stepping
> of the processor connected to the memory controller to properly decode
> the registers.  AMD should have used the revision field in pci config
> space but...

That's in /proc/cpuinfo

-Andi
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