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Date:      Fri, 17 Nov 2000 21:09:10 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CURRENT is freezing again ... 
Message-ID:  <14869.58485.15187.975790@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200011171826.LAA75925@harmony.village.org>
References:  <2967.974461715@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> <200011171826.LAA75925@harmony.village.org>

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Warner Losh writes:
 > In message <2967.974461715@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Sheldon Hearn writes:
 > : The problem with a hard lock-up out of which you can't escape into the
 > : debugger is that it makes meaningful bug reports impossible.  My non-SMP
 > : workstation has exhibited apparently arbitrary lock-ups since the advent
 > : of SMPng.
 > 
 > You can also short IOCHK to ground to get an NMI which kicks you into
 > the debugger, even in an interrupt context.  I have a card I built
 > from an old multi-function card to do this.  I think it is A1 and A2,
 > but I don't have my ISA bus spec handy.

Or you can use an alpha; most of which have a halt button that
will drop you into the SRM console.  ;)

Drew


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