From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Sep 30 18:50:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA16553 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:50:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA16548 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:50:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA05006; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:55:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810010155.SAA05006@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Warner Losh cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Generating an NMI In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 26 Sep 1998 22:44:17 MDT." <199809270444.WAA17904@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:55:18 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I have a driver that I'm working on that likes to lock my laptop > solid. Is there a trick to generating an NMI on a machine that just > has a PCMCIA bus? I know on the ISA bus you can ground IOCHK (or > something spelled similarlly that I always have to look up) and you'll > get an NMI. Pull the machine apart, locate the NMI trace by following it off the CPU, and install a switch in an appropriate place. You *may* find a conveninent pad there already. > I looked in my PCMCIA system architeture book from mind share, but > didn't see anything. > > My power switch, btw, isn't an option because I don't get the apm > events when things get into this state. Nor do I get keyboard > interrupts. Do you get SMI events (BIOS hotkeys, etc.)? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message