Re: [PATCH 3/3] ie31200_edac: Add driver

[Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>]

On 04/09/2014 01:36 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 05:17:53PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
>> The E3-12xx processors connect out to a different (desktop) chipset
>> from the E5 (server parts). Perhaps that means the memory controller
>> are different too???
> 
> You gotta love how Intel has a different memory controller for server
> and desktop parts. :-)
> 

Right, so maybe the fact that its a desktop chipset means that it behaves
differently and doesn't raise MCEs on memory errors. We have a bunch
of these processors and we haven't yet seen an MCE raised on a memory
error.

> Btw, is that the official memory controller name you'd like the edac
> driver to be called - ie31200? I'm asking because it should probably
> have a name which denotes the memory controller and not the processor
> series... (who knows, we might find that memory controller built in
> somewhere else :-))
> 
> Thanks.
> 

The reason I went with ie31200 is that afaiu the memory controller
hub is integrated into the cpu. Another alternative might be ie312xx?

Thanks,

-Jason