Re: [Xen-devel] [patch 4/4]Enable CMCI (Corrected Machine Check Error Interrupt) for Intel CPUs

[Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 13 January 2009 17:48:48 Frank Van Der Linden wrote:
> Hi Christoph,
>
> This patch contains part of our work to extend the MCE interface, as
> part of our FMA efforts. I know we changed some structures, and I also
> remember some alignment issues that we had to fix.
>
> I think these patches are partly based on a slightly older version of
> what we made available, not our final version.
>
> I'm hoping to bring all our changes up to xen-unstable level soon (they
> were originally for 3.1.4), and post them. That should refresh my mind
> about our changes, and hopefully we can discuss things then (with Gavin
> too, who made a lot of these changes).

The patches I have seen so far, don't touch the public API at all.
But Intel did. That's the point in this discussion.

> We (Sun) should probably also re-synch with some of the Intel efforts.
>
> Again, hopefully we can do this soon,
>
> - Frank



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