Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 9 Nov 1997 13:04:37 -0500 (EST) | | From | linux kernel account <> | | Subject | Re: Pentium DEATH in user-mode |
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Is there some hidden kernel option "I've gone crazy and soldered a wire between irq 8 on the ISA bus and the reset line?"
I would guess you wouldn't want to use this with the RTC support :)
On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Alan Cox wrote:
> > okay so what happens if you run this on a SMP box, will only one CPU die? how > > does the kernel handle this? > > The rest dies a second or so later. > > > what about watch dog hardware? what does it do? Does it reboot the system. > > Yep. Software watchdog probably wont, hardware ones will. Actually there > is no excuse for not having watchdogs on a PC since the minimal watchdog > consists of linking IRQ 8 to the reset line and using the CMOS clock. > > Alan >
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