On 6 April 2011 20:34, Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws> wrote: > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxinfo/v3r0m0/index.jsp?topic=/liaai/crashdump/liaaicrashdumpnmiipmi.htm > > If an OS is totally hosed (spinning with interrupts disabled), and NMI can > be used to generate a crash dump. > > It's a debug feature and modelling it exactly the way we are probably makes > sense for other architectures too. The real semantics are basically force > guest crash dump.
Ah, right. (There isn't really an equivalent to this on ARM since we don't have a real NMI equivalent. So any implementation for ARM qemu would be board dependent since you could wire a watchdog up to any interrupt.) Should we try to pick a command name that says what it's supposed to do rather than how it happens to be implemented on x86 ? -- PMM
