Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:55:18 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Generating an NMI Message-ID: <199810010155.SAA05006@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Sep 1998 22:44:17 MDT." <199809270444.WAA17904@harmony.village.org>
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> > 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
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