On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 11:33:00AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > I guess I'll add a note about this in the Kconfig text because I keep > getting patches about this once every couple of months :-)
--- From: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Subject: [PATCH] amd64_edac: Document why it is 64-bit only I keep getting requests for this so let's hold it down why it doesn't make sense. Also, drop incorrect statement about K8 and F10h - this driver supports all relevant AMD CPUs. Cc: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> --- drivers/edac/Kconfig | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/edac/Kconfig b/drivers/edac/Kconfig index 7072c2892d63..4be205741221 100644 --- a/drivers/edac/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/edac/Kconfig @@ -105,11 +105,16 @@ config EDAC_GHES In doubt, say 'Y'. config EDAC_AMD64 - tristate "AMD64 (Opteron, Athlon64) K8, F10h" + tristate "AMD64 (Opteron, Athlon64)" depends on EDAC_MM_EDAC && AMD_NB && X86_64 && EDAC_DECODE_MCE help Support for error detection and correction of DRAM ECC errors on - the AMD64 families of memory controllers (K8 and F10h) + the AMD64 families of memory controllers, everything >= K8. + + Note: this driver is 64-bit only on purpose because having a big + driver report errors for 1 or 2 DIMMs max on 32-bit, considering + current DIMM sizes, does not make a lot of sense to be worth the + effort and energy. config EDAC_AMD64_ERROR_INJECTION bool "Sysfs HW Error injection facilities" -- 2.0.0 -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
