Re: RFC: APEI hardware reduced profile

Tomasz Nowicki
2014-03-27T09:17:57Z

On 03/26/14 21:36, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:10:47PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>> Yet, it would be better if you could be a little more specific about
>> what are your plans and what are the common/not-common features that
>> you're mapping.
>
> Well, I don't see anything x86-specific in ghes.c on a quick scan - just
> the GHES gunk itself, which is the spec. Which begs the question, how
> much of the APEI spec is ARM going to implement and if it is a subset,
> this definitely needs to be handled cleanly. Judging by your text, it
> seems like you want to ignore the correctable errors part...?
>
> So yes, Tomasz, you want to be much more specific here :-)

Thanks for your comment. Please refer to my email to Mauro. I have put
more explanation there.

Correctable errors are fine for ARM. But ARM is not going to have NMI
ever. So as responded to Mauro, I am focusing on making NMI as the
feature for ghes.c.

Thanks,
Tomasz