Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Feb 2016 12:55:39 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v10 4/4] x86: Create a new synthetic cpu capability for machine check recovery |
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On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 11:27:50AM -0800, Luck, Tony wrote: > Digging in the data sheet I found the CAPID0 register which does > indicate in bit 4 whether this is an "EX" (a.k.a. "E7" part). But > we invent a new PCI device ID for this every generation (0x0EC3 in > Ivy Bridge, 0x2fc0 in Haswell, 0x6fc0 in Broadwell). The offset > has stayed at 0x84 through all this. > > I don't think that hunting the ever-changing PCI-id is a > good choice ...
Right :-\
> the "E5/E7" naming convention has stuck for > four generations[1] (Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell). > > -Tony > > [1] Although this probably means that marketing are about to > think of something new ... they generally do when people start > understanding the model names :-(
Yeah, customers shouldn't slack and relax into even thinking they know the model names. Fortunately there's wikipedia...
Thanks.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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