on 11/02/2012 00:42 Sushanth Rai said the following: > Basically I would like to force system panic (and take kernel dump) when > watchdog time expires. Assuming that timer expired due to some OS bug, kernel > memory dump would be very useful. I'm running freebsd 7.2 on Intel IbexPeak > chipset. According to specs, the watchdog timer on IbexPeak first generates > an SMI and then resets the CPU. Since SMI is handled within the BIOS, is > there a way to generate NMI from within BIOS SMI handler ? I see that kernel > has support to either enter the debugger or force panic upon receipt of a > NMI. > > This is not necessarily a FreeBSD question, but would like to hear any > thoughts/pointers.
See this: http://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/datasheet/5-chipset-3400-chipset-datasheet.pdf Search for NMI2SMI_EN. Maybe it's what you want. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
