Re: [PATCHv7] EDAC, altera: Add Altera L2 Cache and OCRAM EDAC Support

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Jan 04 2016 - 16:07:58 EST


On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 02:55:43PM -0600, Dinh Nguyen wrote:
> Right. So for us, if we build in SDRAM ECC unconditionally, there is a
> requirement with the bootloader to turn on ECC and scrub the memory.

Huh, how does a built-in piece of code cause the bootloader to do
something?!?

And how would the bootloader know what's in the kernel? The bootloader
runs first and hands off to the kernel...

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
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