On Saturday 11 March 2006 09:04, Doug Thompson wrote:
> > > > - When an error is actually detected, the subsystem that detected
> > > > the error (for instance, PCI) would feed the error information
> > > > to EDAC. Then EDAC would determine how to respond to the error
> > > > (for instance, push it to userspace or implement the
> > > > userspace-chosen policy (panic/reboot/etc))
> > >
> > > yup.
> >
> > Cool! I think this also coincides with what Doug is saying. Doug, how
> > does this sound?
>
> It sounds good. One issue is how this works with the IBM PCI Parity
> handling submission? I don't remember if it has been included yet or
> not. I haven't fully studied their model, but it allowed for device
> drivers to register notification functions. The PCI subsystem would then
> notify the driver of such errors so the driver could do what ever it
> needed to do in the bad-thing-happened event.
Hmm... interesting. Can you provide any links to info on this?
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