X-Git-Url: http://ftp.safe.ca/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fedac.txt;h=79c533223762baa0df825995068b3c6475d90b8b;hb=21896bc010c17e5ac58951e771496ec2fb1051ed;hp=8eda3fb664166726163bf59565c9d52c76af6c79;hpb=d91958815d214ea365b98cbff6215383897edcb6;p=safe%2Fjmp%2Flinux-2.6 diff --git a/Documentation/edac.txt b/Documentation/edac.txt index 8eda3fb..79c5332 100644 --- a/Documentation/edac.txt +++ b/Documentation/edac.txt @@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ first time, it was renamed to 'EDAC'. The bluesmoke project at sourceforge.net is now utilized as a 'staging area' for EDAC development, before it is sent upstream to kernel.org -At the bluesmoke/EDAC project site, is a series of quilt patches against -recent kernels, stored in a SVN respository. For easier downloading, there +At the bluesmoke/EDAC project site is a series of quilt patches against +recent kernels, stored in a SVN repository. For easier downloading, there is also a tarball snapshot available. ============================================================================ @@ -73,14 +73,14 @@ the vendor should tie the parity status bits to 0 if they do not intend to generate parity. Some vendors do not do this, and thus the parity bit can "float" giving false positives. -In the kernel there is a pci device attribute located in sysfs that is +In the kernel there is a PCI device attribute located in sysfs that is checked by the EDAC PCI scanning code. If that attribute is set, -PCI parity/error scannining is skipped for that device. The attribute +PCI parity/error scanning is skipped for that device. The attribute is: broken_parity_status -as is located in /sys/devices/pci/0000:XX:YY.Z directorys for +as is located in /sys/devices/pci/0000:XX:YY.Z directories for PCI devices. FUTURE HARDWARE SCANNING @@ -288,9 +288,8 @@ Total UE count that had no information attribute fileY: 'ue_noinfo_count' - This attribute file displays the number of UEs that - have occurred have occurred with no informations as to which DIMM - slot is having errors. + This attribute file displays the number of UEs that have occurred + with no information as to which DIMM slot is having errors. Total Correctable Errors count attribute file: