From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hidetoshi Seto Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 05:09:12 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC] Better MCA recovery on IPF 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 Hi, Matthias. > I think error handling needs to be extended to not only > recover from errors and kill for example the concerned > application. Increasing chip density will increase the > soft error rate, so it also becomes important to determinate > if a error is soft (caused for example by cosmic rays) > or if it is a true HW component failure requiring a > replacement. Surely, it is very important to specify where target error comes from. I do not want to carry out advice to replace the component, which working correctly. > Obviously a lot of the error handling will be very > platform dependant, but I think we should be able to come up > with a common frame set. What do you think ? Of course, I agree with a common frame set. In the case of platform premising IPF, I think it is better to regard the Intel's Chipset as the de facto standard. Thanks. ------ H.Seto