[PATCH] powerpc: setup Marvell mv64x60 platform devices for EDAC

Dale Farnsworth dale at farnsworth.org
Thu May 24 06:23:11 EST 2007


Dave Jiang wrote:
> Creating platform devices (memory controller, sram error registers, cpu error
> registers, PCI error registers) for Error Detection and Correction (EDAC)
> driver on the Marvell mv64x60 based platforms.
> 
> The platform devices allow the mv64x60 EDAC driver to detect errors from the
> memory controller (ECC erorrs), SRAM controller, CPU data path error registers,
> and PCI error registers. The errors are reported to syslog. Software ECC
> scrubbing is provided. These replace the mv64x60 error handlers in the
> ppc branch
> They are being moved to EDAC subsystem in order to centralize error reporting. 
> 
> The error reporting can be triggered via interrupts from the mv64x60 bridge chip
> or via polling mechanism provided by the EDAC core code.
> 
> The mv64x60 EDAC driver can be found at:
> http://bluesmoke.sourceforge.net/
> 
> It's in development to be pushed into the kernel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <djiang at mvista.com>

Acked-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale at farnsworth.org>



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