On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 02:53:53PM +0000, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> From: Yazen Ghannam <[email protected]>
>
> The Extended Error Code Bitmap (xec_bitmap) for a Scalable MCA bank type
> was intended to be used by the kernel to filter out invalid error codes
> on a system. However, this is unnecessary because the hardware will only
> report valid error codes.
That's a kinda bold statement. :)
Are you saying, you wanna trust verification and that check is totally
useless?
Or is there another reason for removing it?
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