Hi!
> This is a pair of patches that add the basic ECC and related chipset
> handling to the kernel. Various "interesting" patches have kicked around
> since Dan Hollis original work some years ago. Since then many people
> have picked up the code and improved on it.
>
> The current code (bluesmoke.sf.net) has some very fancy NMI handling
> features and other complex open issues with NMI during a PCI transaction
> and the like.
>
> This code is a subset and the maintainer agrees this is the best
> approach to merging.
>
> >From the original repository
>
> - 2.4 and other compatibility code removed
> - Some commenting added
> - A couple of 32bit isms cleaned up
> - Move several drivers from pci_find to pci_get
> - Remove all the NMI layer handling so that the code requires no core
> changes
> - Rename from bluesmoke to EDAC (Correct name for the whole field of ECC
> and friends) to avoid confusion
I'd say thta bluesmoke is *way* better name than EDAC. We don't need
yet another ETLA.
Pavel
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Thanks, Sharp!
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