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From: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
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To: "M. Koehrer" <mathias_koehrer@domain.hid>
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M. Koehrer wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> 
> I tried disabling SMP - but no success...
> Unfortuantely, the SMI watchdog does not work on my machine.
> After booting the PC, dmesg shows me the line
> Xenomai: NMI watchdog not available.
> 
> Is the NMI watchdog support somehow configurable or is this a real hardware issue?
> 
> For patching the kernel, I used the adeos-ipipe-2.6.19-i386-1.6-02.patch which is
> part of Xenomai.
> 
> As I do not see an easy way to get the 2.6.19.* running,  I think, I will switch back to 
> the latest 2.6.17.* kernel (2.6.17.14) which works fine.

In order to get the NMI watchdog, you have to enable it on kernel
command line, passing nmi_watchdog=2 or nmi_watchdog=1. Read linux
Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt for more details.

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                                                 Gilles Chanteperdrix