[coreboot] [help] A K8/RS780/SB710 board MCE error

Marc Jones marcj303 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 16 23:39:04 CEST 2010


On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Liu Tao <liutao1980 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/16/10, Marc Jones <marcj303 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I haven't worked with K8 is a while, but it seems like this could be a
>> real CPU problem. Do you have another CPU to test with? The other
>> possibility is that there is a missing errata or workaround for your
>> CPU. You could review the AMD K8 revision guide for cache and MCA/MCE
>> issues. Please let us know what you find.
>
> Hi Marc,
>
> I just update coreboot from r5692 to r5814 and the problem resolved,
> before update the code I have met three types of MCE error:
> Data cache ECC error
> L2 cache ECC error
> Northbridge chipkill ECC error
>
> I have not take a detailed look at the code differences yet, but I think
> maybe it's related to the recent discussion of amd cache broken?

Glad that it is workin now. It is probably not the CAR stuff, that was
for fam10.

Marc


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