From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:51:40 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] [RFC] Remove MCA dump? Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org The MCA handler is completely useless. If I crash the machine and forget to clear the MCA dump in firmware, at the next boot Linux dumps the registers (in a hard-to-understand style) and hangs. In its current state, I'd rather it simply weren't in the kernel at all. Do any platforms not have MCA handling facilities in firmware? -- Revolutions do not require corporate support.