From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 2/7] EDAC, altera: Add panic flag check to A10 IRQ Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 19:02:53 +0200 Message-ID: <20160617170253.GH3912@pd.tnic> References: <1465852752-11018-1-git-send-email-tthayer@opensource.altera.com> <1465852752-11018-3-git-send-email-tthayer@opensource.altera.com> <20160617165131.GE3912@pd.tnic> <57642DE5.6060903@opensource.altera.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <57642DE5.6060903@opensource.altera.com> Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Thor Thayer Cc: dougthompson@xmission.com, m.chehab@samsung.com, robh+dt@kernel.org, pawel.moll@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com, ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk, galak@codeaurora.org, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, dinguyen@opensource.altera.com, grant.likely@linaro.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, tthayer.linux@gmail.com List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 12:05:41PM -0500, Thor Thayer wrote: > That is a good question. We have 2 important uses for OCRAM 1) to hold our > power-down/sleep and resume functions and 2) to hold our FPGA contents > during sleep. If either of these is corrupted, it is better to panic than to > load something that would cause incorrect. > > In the cases of the FIFOs such as Ethernet and USB, the plan is to add code > to drop the packet so that we'll get a re-transmission. In that case, it is > sort of recoverable. Much better. Now put that explanation in the code please! :-) -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.