Keith Owens wrote:
> A couple of people have asked if the NMI watchdog can be used on UP
> boxes, so a looping UP system will drop into kdb after 5 seconds. The
> answer is yes but not on 2.3.99-pre2.
>
> kdb v1.2+NMI watchdog is working on UP 2.4.0-test1-ac10 but not on
> UP 2.3.99-pre2. There were a lot of low level APIC and 82489DX changes
> between those releases, I do not consider it worthwhile backporting
> these changes from 2.4 to a relatively old 2.3 kernel. Another good
> reason to jump to 2.4.0-test1 for xfs ;).
It's comings... the ptools people should get the merge done soon.
I'll start working on getting it to compile as soon it is done.
I also need to get the XFS changes split out in a patch set separate
from all the other changes. I want to be able to generate and XFS only
patch.
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Russell Cattelan
cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx
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