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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add iProc IDM device support
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On Mon,  2 Dec 2019 15:31:25 -0800
Ray Jui <ray.jui@broadcom.com> wrote:

> The Broadcom iProc IDM device allows control and monitoring of ASIC internal
> bus transactions. Most importantly, it can be configured to detect bus
> transaction timeout. In such case, critical information such as transaction
> address that caused the error, bus master ID of the transaction that caused
> the error, and etc., are made available from the IDM device.

This seems to have many of the features of an EDAC device reporting
uncorrectable errors.

Is there any reason why it is not implemented as such?

Thanks,

	M.
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