Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Jan 2002 14:56:40 -0500 | From | Brian Gerst <> | Subject | Re: system time issue |
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"Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > > The code works by disabling paging while executing code where > there is not a 1:1 physical/virtual page mapping. I have never > found a system, even one with two CPUs that did not instantly > reset.
All you are doing is causing a triple fault, started with most likely an invalid op fault. There are many ways of doing that, including the no idt way the kernel currently uses, which IMHO would be more reliable that depending on the processor crashing on random memory.
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