Subj : Re: Any sign of notifiable ECC support on Pi 5 or CM5?
To   : All
From : Mike Easter
Date : Tue Dec 02 2025 10:30:01

James Harris wrote:
> That's good. But do they inform the OS of when there are corrections
> and uncorrectable errors?

Not that I 'rely' on the tools I use...

gglAIov:
> The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 (CM5) supports on-die ECC (Error
> Correction Code), which silently corrects single-bit errors but does
> not report them to the operating system. This is different from
> traditional ECC, which would also report errors. The Pi5 does not
> support traditional ECC with OS-level error reporting, so while
> errors are corrected, the system won't be alerted to potential
> issues with the RAM


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Mike Easter

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