RE: Linux ACPI BERT implementation

Nath, Arindam
2011-08-12T09:43:58Z

Hi Huang,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Huang Ying [mailto:ying.huang@intel.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 8:25 AM
> To: Nath, Arindam
> Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org; Su, Henry
> Subject: Re: Linux ACPI BERT implementation
>
> Hi, Arindam,
>
> The bert patch is attached with the mail.

Thanks for the patch.

>
> The testing steps
>
> 1. Build kernel with APEI enabled.
> 2. Trigger some hardware error so that BERT will be filled
> 3. Reboot system, and check whether there are some kernel message
> (dmesg) begin with
>
> [Hardware Error] Error record from previous boot:
>
> We don't know how to do (2). That is key for this testing.

I will try to contact our design engineers to help me with this.

Thanks,
Arindam

>
> Best Regards,
> Huang Ying
>
> On 08/10/2011 02:36 PM, Nath, Arindam wrote:
> > Hi Huang,
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Huang Ying [mailto:ying.huang@intel.com]
> >> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 12:38 PM
> >> To: Nath, Arindam
> >> Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org; Su, Henry
> >> Subject: Re: Linux ACPI BERT implementation
> >>
> >> On 07/15/2011 02:45 PM, Nath, Arindam wrote:
> >>> Hi Huang,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Since you have already added some support for APEI into the ACPI
> >>> subsystem, are you planning to add support for BERT too?
> >>
> >> Yes. I have the code. But have not found a way to test it on my
> >> testing
> >> machine. Do you have any machine to test it?
> >
> > Sorry for the late response. We do have platform with ACPI BERT
> support, but it has not been tested. So if you provide me the patch, it
> would help if you could also provide me the steps to test the patch.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Arindam
> >
> >>
> >> Best Regards,
> >> Huang Ying
> >
> >