On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Tim Cook <t...@cook.ms> wrote:
>
.... snip ....
> Someone can correct me if I'm wrong... but I believe that opensolaris can do
> the ECC scrubbing in software even of the motherboard BIOS doesn't support
> it.
The OS is not involved with the ECC functionality of the hardware
AFAIK. Usually an ECC error will generate a non-maskable interrupt
and the OS will have an appropriate handler setup to handle this
interrupt.
This is the extent of my understanding - without doing additional homework.
Regards,
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