Normally, ECC has meant just the DIMM stores some extra bits, and the memory controller itself implements ECC-- writing the extra parity, and recovering when errors emerge (and halting when non-recoverable errors happen).
DDR5 includes on-die ECC, where the RAM fixes the errors before sending them over the memory bus.
This means if the bus between the processor and ram corrupts the bits-- tough luck, they're still corrupted. And it's unclear whether we're going to get the quality of memory error reporting that we're used to or get the desired halt-on-non-recoverable error behavior (I've not been able to obtain/read the DDR5 specification as yet).
