linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] amd64_edac: syndromes loading

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Message-ID: <20091106132019.GB30030@aftab>
Date:	Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:20:19 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
CC:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Doug Thompson <norsk5@...oo.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, x86 <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] amd64_edac: syndromes loading

On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 11:17:25PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > The good news is they've come up with a modified algorithm which will
> > require a smaller table, roughly 1/4th the size of the current 10K one.
> > Now, on a second thought and IMHO, we should simply add another .c file
> > instantiating those two x4 and x8 tables statically and linking them
> > into the edac code. This way you
> > 
> > 1) don't have the additional complexity of adding firmware handling code
> > and thus don't add a dependency on the firmware API
> > 
> > 2) don't have to actually carry two firmware images with the kernel
> 
> Well, that's certainly better than current situation.

Looks like we might have a much more elegant solution eliminating the
need for big tables and firmware images. Stay tuned while we're figuring
out the details.

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