Gavin Maltby writes: > AMD family 0x10 will use cpu.generic + cpu_ms.AuthenticAMD to begin with. > This actually gives equivalent levels of cpu fault diagnosis to the > all-singing-and-dancing family 0xf model-specific support; all that > is absent is the fine-grained error classification (eg instead of > "correctable level 1 I-cache error" which the generic MCA would > give us we could offer "correctable level 1 I-cache erroring > during a load from L2").
OK; thanks. > In time we may deliver cpu_ms.AuthenticAMD.16, or extend > cpu_ms.AuthenticAMD to be more widely generic. The latter is > our preferred approach. The more pressing need for family 0x10 > is to deliver a memory-controller driver akin to what mc-amd > does for family 0xf - full topology discovery and physical > address to resource resolution - we'll be resourcing that first. So we expect things to peel off into a ".16" version only when those errors become not-generic, which might not be noticable until there's a "0x11" family ... right? -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
