From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bjorn Helgaas Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 18:41:32 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFE] Add stacked registers to SAL records (resend) 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 On Thursday 04 December 2003 5:59 pm, Keith Owens wrote: > SAL error records contain most registers in sal_processor_static_info, > but not the stacked registers. What is the process for adding another > GUID to the SAL specification to contain the stacked registers? One of our architecture guys pointed out that the stacked registers should still be intact at the OS_MCA and OS_INIT handoffs. They are unchanged in the PALE_CHECK and PALE_INIT exit state (I finally found this buried in the RSE description), and the OS_MCA and OS_INIT handoff state is defined to be the same for stacked registers. So I assume your proposal is to address the fact that we don't actually save the error records until after a reboot, and the stacked register contents are gone by then. Right? Bjorn