From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tweak memory error correction field in the SMBIOS data
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:27:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6luvqzz.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1259086479-12444-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> (Paolo Bonzini's message of "Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:14:39 +0100")
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:
> Microsoft's Windows logo certified hardware requires single- or
> multi-bit ECC; since the SVVP certification runs the same test
> on the guest, Xen domains will currently fail it.
>
> - p->error_correction = 0x01; /* other */
> + p->error_correction = 0x06; /* Multi-bit ECC to make Microsoft happy */
That's lying if the host doesn't support ECC.
It would be better if you checked that on the host and then
set it appropiately in the guest too.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-25 10:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-24 18:14 [PATCH] tweak memory error correction field in the SMBIOS data Paolo Bonzini
2009-11-25 3:06 ` Jiang, Yunhong
2009-11-25 9:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-11-25 15:00 ` Jiang, Yunhong
2009-11-25 15:18 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-11-26 1:21 ` Jiang, Yunhong
2009-11-26 12:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-11-27 1:50 ` Jiang, Yunhong
2009-11-25 10:27 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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