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Table 4-1 Operating system support for selected RAS features
RAS feature AIX V5.3 AIX V6.1 RHEL V5.1 SLES V10
System Deallocation of Failing Components
Dynamic processor deallocation Y Y Y
1
Y
Dynamic processor sparing YYYY
Processor instruction retry YYYY
Alternate processor recovery YYYY
Partition contained checkstop YYYY
Persistent processor deallocationYYYY
GX+ bus persistent deallocation Y Y N N
PCI bus extended error detectionYYYY
PCI bus extended error recovery Y Y Limited
1
Limited
PCI-PCI bridge extended error handling Y Y N N
Redundant RIO Link YYYY
PCI card hot swap Y Y Y
1
Y
Dynamic SP failover at runtime Y Y N N
Memory sparing with CoD at IPL timeYYYY
Clock failover at IPL YYYY
Memory Availability
ECC Memory, L2, L3 cache YYYY
Dynamic bit-steering (spare memory)YYYY
Memory scrubbing YYYY
Chipkill memory YYYY
Memory page deallocation Y Y N N
L1 parity check plus retry YYYY
L2 cache line delete YYYY
L3 cache line delete YYYY
L3 cache memory scrubbing YYYY
Array recovery & Array persistent
deallocation (spare bits in L1 & L2 cache;
L1, L2, and L3 directory)
YYYY
Special uncorrectable error handlingYYYY
Fault Detection and Isolation
Platform FFDC diagnostics YYYY
I/O FFDC diagnostics Y Y N Y
Runtime diagnostics Y Y Limited Limited