Re: CURRENT is freezing again ...

[Andrew Gallatin]

Warner Losh writes:
 > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sheldon Hearn writes:
 > : The problem with a hard lock-up out of which you can't escape into the
 > : debugger is that it makes meaningful bug reports impossible.  My non-SMP
 > : workstation has exhibited apparently arbitrary lock-ups since the advent
 > : of SMPng.
 > 
 > You can also short IOCHK to ground to get an NMI which kicks you into
 > the debugger, even in an interrupt context.  I have a card I built
 > from an old multi-function card to do this.  I think it is A1 and A2,
 > but I don't have my ISA bus spec handy.

Or you can use an alpha; most of which have a halt button that
will drop you into the SRM console.  ;)

Drew


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