Re: Can NMI drop a hanging FreeBSD kernel into DDB?

[Warner Losh]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Warner Losh writes:
: However, it won't work if you are hacking pci hardware and manage to
: hang the PCI bus.

Unless, of course, the trap handler is in cache as well as the
debugger routines you need.  On rare occasions this is true, but
almsot all the time it isn't.  There's not a good way to force it
either since if you knew you were about to hang the pci bus, you'd not
do the action that would hang it :-).

Warner


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