NMI Watchdog Timer and kdb-v1_5-2_2_18.gz Patch

Keith Owens kaos at melbourne.sgi.com
Sat Jan 20 08:04:38 PST 2001


On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 14:02:39 -0700,
"David Rorke" <DER at novell.com> wrote:
>I'm attempting to use kdb 1.5 on 2.2.18 (via the patch kdb-v1_5-2_2_18.gz).
>
>I'd like to use this in conjunction with the NMI watchdog timer, but it
>appears that some of the
>code supporting the NMI watchdog timer may not have been backported from
>2.4 as part of
>this patch.

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kdb for 2.2 does not use the NMI oopser because the standard 2.2 kernel
has no NMI watchdog.  The feature was added in 2.3.20, around October
12, 1999.




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