On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Gleb O. Raiko wrote: > DBE is treated as ACK* on write. Some HW design manuals advise to use > this fact even. And what is the use of ACK*? Note that that the state of the CPU at the moment of a write is completely unrelated to the action that triggered the write. Therefore any reporting of a write failure is hardly useful -- possibly as a kind of an MCE only, i.e. report the event and kill the current process or panic if none. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
