[PATCHv3 2/7] EDAC, altera: Add panic flag check to A10 IRQ

Borislav Petkov bp at alien8.de
Fri Jun 17 10:02:53 PDT 2016


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.

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