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4.5 Operating system support for RAS features
Table 4-2 gives an overview of a number of features for continuous availability that are
supported by the various operating systems running on the Power 710, Power 720,
Power 730, and Power 740 systems.
Table 4-2 Operating system support for RAS features
RAS feature
System deallocation of failing components
Dynamic Processor Deallocation
Dynamic Processor Sparing
Processor Instruction Retry
Alternate Processor Recovery
Partition Contained Checkstop
Persistent processor deallocation
GX++ bus persistent deallocation
PCI bus extended error detection
PCI bus extended error recovery
PCI-PCI bridge extended error handling
Redundant RIO or 12x Channel link
PCI card hot-swap
Dynamic SP failover at run-time
Memory sparing with CoD at IPL time
Clock failover runtime or IPL
Memory availability
64-byte ECC code
Hardware scrubbing
CRC
Chipkill
L1 instruction and data array protection
L2/L3 ECC & cache line delete
Special uncorrectable error handling
Fault detection and isolation
Platform FFDC diagnostics
Run-time diagnostics
Storage Protection Keys
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