Re: [PATCH] EDAC: Add AMD Seattle SoC EDAC

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 06:26:55PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > Btw, how much of this is implementing generic A57 functionality?
> 
> The driver is entirely A57 generic.
> 
> > If a lot, can we make this a generic a57_edac driver so that multiple
> > vendors can use it?
> 
> Yes.

Ok, cool.

> > How fast and how ugly can something like that become?
> 
> Not sure I follow.

In the sense that some vendor might require just a little bit different
handling or maybe wants to read some vendor-specific registers in
addition to the architectural ones.

Then we'll start adding vendor-specific hacks to that generic driver.
And therefore the question how fast and how ugly such hacks would
become.

I guess we'll worry about that when we get there...

So Brijesh, if you only need generic, architectural functionality,
please call it arm64_edac or so and let's add it so that other arm64
vendors can use it too.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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