From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 8 17:42:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D37937B401 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 17:42:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f091dXG52739; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 17:39:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 17:41:36 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: "Daniel O'Connor" Subject: Re: ECC worth the extra cost for SOHO server? Cc: David Kelly Cc: David Kelly , FreeBSD Chat List , Francisco Reyes , Chris Dillon Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 09-Jan-01 Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 09-Jan-01 Chris Dillon wrote: >> > I think 4.x doesn't panic on ECC NMI's anymore but I'm not sure. >> Out of curiosity, how does the OS know exactly what event triggered >> the NMI? I know what an NMI can mean, but I don't know what it REALLY >> IS, you know what I mean? The technical answer for exactly what an >> NMI is and what it consists of is welcome. :-) > > Yeah, sorry I don't have a clue :) > > I'm sure someone out there does.. Answer us damnit! :) Check out src/sys/i386/isa/intr_machdep.c:isa_nmi(). -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message