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On 04.06.14 11:47, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 4 June 2014 10:39, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>> It's a kind of "emergency button" on real machines.  On PCs it sends an NMI
>> and this results in some kind of crash dump if the OS is configured
>> appropriately.  The command may be ill-named for historical reasons, but the
>> effect is not x86-specific.
> OK, so our callback function name should be sensibly named
> to match what the effect is supposed to be, and we should have
> a sensibly named command, and we should make "nmi" be
> a historical-legacy-backwards-compatibility command alias
> (possibly only exposed for x86).

I honestly don't have a better name :).


Alex