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Date:      Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:26:49 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Cc:        Thomas Zander <thomas.e.zander@googlemail.com>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Interpreting MCA error output
Message-ID:  <087BDDD7-0B16-4415-8D98-11FA617E03F5@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20111018071941.GA9482@icarus.home.lan>
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On 18/10/2011, at 17:49, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>> That would be absolutely helpful! After all, FreeBSD is primarily a
>> server OS, and where would one have ECC if not on servers. Being able
>> to determine what's wrong with memory would be certainly very =
valuable
>> for many admins.
>=20
> This has been done, and it was committed a couple days ago as
> sysutils/mcelog.  There are a couple thing about the port which bother
> me[1], and there is one warning which can be safely ignored (I'm a
> strong advocate of -Werror) but I do have a fix for that, but =
otherwise
> it's functional.

Do MCA log events cause anything in devd?

It would be _super_ neat if the mcelog port installed a devd rule which =
emailed root@ with the human readable version of an MCA exception :)

I suspect this wouldn't be too difficult to do for a JKH.

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