The Linux Error Detection and Correction Subsystem (EDAC) - another part of the Linux High Availability jigsaw

Table of Contents

1. Purpose and History

2. Overview of the EDAC Subsystem

3. Introduction to the EDAC Subsystem

4. History

5. Status

6. What are these errors then?

7. What are PCI parity errors?

8. Causes of PCI parity errors

9. What are main memory "ECC" errors?

10. Causes of main memory errors

11. Using the EDAC subsystem

12. Getting and enabling EDAC

13. Without the EDAC subsystem

14. With the EDAC subsystem

15. Practical advantages of EDAC

16. How you can help!

17. Future Work

18. Future Developments

19. Conclusions

20. Conclusions

21. References

22. Q&A and extras (if time)

23. Extras

24. Soft Errors

25. Practical Implications of Soft Errors

26. Practical Implications of Soft Errors - Continued

27. How to write an EDAC memory controller driver

28. More detail on how ECC works in PCs.

29. Q&A