From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Williamson Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 22:58:02 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] 2.4.20 / DIG Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Jes Sorensen wrote: > > >>>>> "Bjorn" = Bjorn Helgaas writes: > > >> Must admit I didn't - are those preserved across a power cycle? > > Bjorn> They should be. Of course, it will only make sense if you still > Bjorn> have symbols from the kernel that caused the MCA. > > Urgh, brown paper bag time ... I was running a very old version of EFI > on it (103B). Upgrading to 117C made the problem go away, the proper way. > > Doh ;-( sorry for the noise. > Ah, this is probably a good thing to point out. I was helping someone debug a similar issue last week. They were kind enough to trace it to the CPE polling. They also upgraded firmware and the problem went away. Apparently SAL_GET_STATE_INFO(CPE) doesn't work on any 103 flavors of Itanium firmware. I don't know when it was fixed, but I think we're in consensus that fw 117 works. Alex -- Alex Williamson Linux Development Lab alex_williamson@hp.com Hewlett Packard 970-898-9173 Fort Collins, CO