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

Thor Thayer tthayer at opensource.altera.com
Fri Jun 17 10:11:21 PDT 2016



On 06/17/2016 12:02 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 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!
>
> :-)
>
I'll add that in the next revision. Thanks for reviewing.



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