I picked up an old ASRock X99 Extreme4 motherboard from my workplace during an office move a while back which was no longer required by the company. Naturally I put Debian GNU/Linux on it!

It does not use ECC RAM, and I would always see these annoying messages in the kernel logs:

EDAC sbridge: Seeking for: PCI ID XXXX:XXXX

This would be repeated 33 times for different PCI IDs, all of which were repeated 12 times each (for each CPU thread it seems), resulting in 396 such kernel messages for every boot!

Further, each CPU thread would print the following error in red:

EDAC sbridge: CPU SrcID #0, Ha #0, Channel #0 has DIMMs, but ECC is disabled
EDAC sbridge: Couldn’t find mci handler
EDAC sbridge: Failed to register device with error -19.

Clearly the system is attempting to work with ECC which is not configured on this system. Having ECC usage fail is expected, but the logs are very annoying. They get in the way of any messages which might actually be important.

Fortunately, after some trial and error, this was the solution which made all of these pointless messages go away:

echo "blacklist sb_edac" > /etc/modprobe.d/edac-blacklist.conf

If you find yourself in a similar situation with a different motherboard, you can blacklist all edac-related kernel modules used by the currently running kernel by running the following as root (all as one line):

for i in $(find "/lib/modules/$(uname -r)" -type f -iname '*edac*' -exec basename {} \; | cut -d '.' -f 1) ; do echo blacklist ${i} ; done > /etc/modprobe.d/edac-blacklist.conf

Once you have created an edac-blacklist.conf file with one of the above commands, you can have it take effect by regenerating your initramfs file like so (again, as root):

update-initramfs -k all -u

Hopefully someone else finds this information useful.