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x86, mce: document new 32bit mcelog requirement in Documentation/Changes
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Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Andi Kleen authored and H. Peter Anvin committed May 28, 2009
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o oprofile 0.9 # oprofiled --version
o udev 081 # udevinfo -V
o grub 0.93 # grub --version
o mcelog 0.6

Kernel compilation
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services be protected from the internet-at-large by a firewall where
that is possible.

mcelog
------

In Linux 2.6.31+ the i386 kernel needs to run the mcelog utility
as a regular cronjob similar to the x86-64 kernel to process and log
machine check events when CONFIG_X86_NEW_MCE is enabled. Machine check
events are errors reported by the CPU. Processing them is strongly encouraged.
All x86-64 kernels since 2.6.4 require the mcelog utility to
process machine checks.

Getting updated software
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----
o <http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse>

mcelog
------
o <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/cpu/mce/mcelog/>

Networking
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