Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: NMI ?? | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 1999 23:30:15 +0100 (BST) |
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> > may be fun for someone who likes playing with dirtly low level stuff is > > supporting the PentiumPro/PII Machine check > > Hm?
The PII and the like have two ways of handling failures the chip detects. THe default behaviour is a shutdown cycle, a reboot. The optional behaviour is to take a machine check exception (ie an 'oh shit' trap). That lets you find out what exploded and will report stuff like cache parity errors
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