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SubjectRe: NMI ??
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> The PII and the like have two ways of handling failures the chip detects. THe
> default behaviour is a shutdown cycle, a reboot. The optional behaviour is
> to take a machine check exception (ie an 'oh shit' trap). That lets you
> find out what exploded and will report stuff like cache parity errors

Even Pentium CPUs have a limited MCE feature.

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