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Date:      Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:23:33 -0400
From:      Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net if.c
Message-ID:  <20040926162333.GC1164@green.homeunix.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040925.225150.20525280.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <20040924094950.N39925@pooker.samsco.org> <20040924161807.GJ959@green.homeunix.org> <20040925203122.GF83620@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <20040925.225150.20525280.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 10:51:50PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20040925203122.GF83620@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
>             Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> writes:
> : On Fri, 2004-Sep-24 12:18:07 -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> : >On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 09:51:31AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> : >> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> : >> > Every time it "appears" to be fixed, I can't get any kind of stability
> : >> > with SMP, PREEMPTION, and SCHED_ULE; I'm certainly willing to try it
> : >> > each time it looks to be fixed.
> : >> 
> : >> Would you please copy me on the reports that you've sent to Julian so I
> : >> can track them also?
> : >
> : >The only way I can get reports other than "it hung, serial DDB and
> : >SW_WATCHDOG are no help" is if somehow I gain some kind of real
> : >hardware watchdog. :(
> : 
> : If you have an ISA slot handy, you can trivially generate NMI by
> : shorting a pair of opposite pins (from memory the pair closest to the
> : rear but I can't quickly verify that).  Unfortunately, raising SERR#
> : on a PCI bus appears to require some logic.
> 
> A1 and B1 pins.  This clocks #IOCHK.  However, this doesn't work on
> all bridge chipsets, and many of them don't reset correctly w/o
> changes to the tree.  I've submitted them to bde a long time ago, but
> he didn't like them for reasons that I don't recall at the moment.
> 
> However, it will work on most chipsets.

Least of which my modern Athlon MP chipset which has no physical ISA slots.

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