- ranging from a warning message on the console, to halting the machine.
- Your processor must be a Pentium or newer to support this - check the
- flags in /proc/cpuinfo for mce. Note that some older Pentium systems
- have a design flaw which leads to false MCE events - hence MCE is
- disabled on all P5 processors, unless explicitly enabled with "mce"
- as a boot argument. Similarly, if MCE is built in and creates a
- problem on some new non-standard machine, you can boot with "nomce"
- to disable it. MCE support simply ignores non-MCE processors like
- the 386 and 486, so nearly everyone can say Y here.
-
-config X86_OLD_MCE
- depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE
- bool "Use legacy machine check code (will go away)"
- default n
- select X86_ANCIENT_MCE
- ---help---
- Use the old i386 machine check code. This is merely intended for
- testing in a transition period. Try this if you run into any machine
- check related software problems, but report the problem to
- linux-kernel. When in doubt say no.
-
-config X86_NEW_MCE
- depends on X86_MCE
- bool
- default y if (!X86_OLD_MCE && X86_32) || X86_64