On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 09:39:52PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > - PA-RISC always turns on SERR and PARITY, which no other arch does > I suspect this is because we set the host bus adapters to hard fail (HPMC) on detecting an error, since we don't want to 1) return possibly bogus (-1) data 2) write code to use the (undocumented) error detection More to the point, I suspect it's extra paranoia because firmware has set it up this way. I put in a quick hack to test whether those bits were set, and they came enabled that way by firmware on all the boxes I tested. (Disclaimer, I didn't have any easily accessible boxes with add-on cards installed, so firmware might just set it up for core devices, and we're making sure its set everywhere.) cheers, Kyle - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
