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SubjectRe: [PATCH] NMI trap revised (was Re: NMI errors in 2.0.30??)
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On Fri, 9 May 1997 17:01:56 +0200, you wrote:

> After studying lots of specs and testing it on several motherboards, it
> seems that those bits are implemented almost everywhere and hard-wired to zeroes
> on the remaining MB's. We probably should honor them and report the reason
> to the user if we find any.
>

Well, I have very little faith in motherboard manufacturers and BIOS writers, so
I wouldn't believe anything I didn't set myself.

> > This is really an issue about where hardware initialization should occur. The
> > real-mode setup.S seems to be the intended place to do this sort of thing, but
> > very few people like writing assembler code so it tends to clutter up the kernel
> > proper. I have a few ideas about this. Maybe something will happen in a few
> > weeks.
>
> We probably don't have any hardware to be initialized as we must not touch
> the enables (see the previous discussion).
>
> Martin

Again, this depends on how much trust you have in the hardware setup.

John


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