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This maybe true for later models but not initial offers. If you look a the Linux 4.10 change log [1] you will see that while zen supports ECC, it ignores the e
by valarauca1 10y ago
This maybe true for later models but not initial offers.
If you look a the Linux 4.10 change log [1] you will see that while zen supports ECC, it ignores the error correction message. So you can use ECC ram, but you get none of the benefit of ECC ram
[1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d12a969ebbfcfc25853c4147d42b388f758e8784 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....
- et2o 10y agoAre warning messages like these common in the Linux kernel? Cursory overview makes it seem like the logic should never get there. Funny. > WARN(1, "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.\n");
- rincebrain 10y agoThat looks like it just adds a class of errors, "deferred", without explanation, though this commit [1] implies that these are for ECC errors whose handling was not urgent, and does not specify further how those would occur (unless the MC knows something about the page being used for cache/re-readable data or something, so it can just drop the page on the floor and reread it). [1] - https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4838a0def07f5611347860b1fc0129c3fe77cc02 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....