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Date:      Mon, 2 Jul 2007 09:27:12 -0700
From:      Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Takeharu KATO <takeharu1219@ybb.ne.jp>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] Machine Check Architecture on amd64
Message-ID:  <ABBCE6EB-C6D6-465E-8E6A-E9B6DD5F1FE7@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <46892373.1080602@ybb.ne.jp>
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On Jul 2, 2007, at 9:10 AM, Takeharu KATO wrote:

> Hi
>
>> While I don't know about Intel CPUs, K8 CPUs from AMD have a  
>> hardware DRAM/data cache scrubber, so I didn't bother implementing  
>> it, and I
> Certainly, they does not have hardware scrubber.

Actually, I looked at the documentation for Intel E7501 chipset, and  
it seems like it also has a hardware scrubber: See http:// 
download.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/25192702.pdf section 5.8.2.
So, supposedly, other Intel chipsets for servers might also have it.

You can find information about the AMD scrubber in http://www.amd.com/ 
us-en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/dwamd_26049.pdf ,  
section 3.6.6.

-- Suleiman





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