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Date:      Mon, 08 Jan 2001 17:41:36 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, FreeBSD Chat List <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org>, Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net>, Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
Subject:   Re: ECC worth the extra cost for SOHO server?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010108174136.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010109120252.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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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().

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