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Date:      Wed, 18 Feb 1998 17:49:01 -0500 (EST)
From:      Wee Teck Ng <weeteck@eecs.umich.edu>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   machine check handler
Message-ID:  <199802182249.RAA11619@singapore.eecs.umich.edu>

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hi all,

i'm working on freebsd 2.2.1 on pentium II pcs, and noticed 
that machine check is not enabled by the kernel. i checked 
3.0 current and found the same thing. my questions are:

- are there any benefits in enabling machine check? 
- the intel manuals seem to imply that the processor can't recover
  from a machine check exception. the current trap handler (trap.c)
  call trap_fatal if it encounters a machine check exception. besides
  logging the error events, is it reasonable to attempt a recovery?

thanks!
wee teck

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