EDAC on AMD with Fedora 10

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wednesday 15 April 2009 05:13:36 Jeremy Sanders wrote:
> Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> 
> > According to the kernel Kconfig file it's only available for old 32-bit
> > Athlons, and it is in the i686 kernel(s).
> > 
> > 
> > config EDAC_AMD76X
> >         tristate "AMD 76x (760, 762, 768)"
> >         depends on EDAC_MM_EDAC && PCI && X86_32
> >         help
> >           Support for error detection and correction on the AMD 76x
> >           series of chipsets used with the Athlon processor.
> 
> Thanks. I didn't realise it was only 32 bit athlons only.
> 
> Any idea what EDAC modules 64 bit Athlon 64s should use? Under RHEL the 
> k8_edac module provides ECC checking, but this module no longer exists as 
> far as I can tell in Fedora 10.
> 
> I seems strange that Fedora doesn't support ECC on AMD systems, but RHEL 
> does!

The k8_edac module in RHEL5 is there via an out-of-tree patch. I can't recall
why, but upstream had issues with the code, so it has yet to be merged into
Linus' kernel, thus the reason its not in the Fedora kernel.

CC'ing Aris, who might have a better idea on upstream progress of that code...

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at redhat.com