Re: [RFC 5/6] x86, NMI, Add support to notify hardware error with unknown NMI

Ingo Molnar
2010-09-15T09:29:59Z

* Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 02:21:31PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> ...
> > The proper approach would be not to add hacks to the NMI code but to
> > implement southbridge drivers - which would also have NMI callbacks.
> > These are unchartered waters, but variance in that space is reducing
> > systematically so it would be worth a shot.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ingo
>
> Hi Ingo,
>
> while there is a conversation about makeing NMI handler robust/modern
> or whatever, I think the naming Huang has implemented for NMI
> Stat&Ctrl registers/ports look quite good and convenient (I thought
> about this times ago when being merging nmi-32/64 code but didn't
> implemented it properly). So I presume perhaps we could merge this
> snippets first? Or I miss something on discussion in general?

Yeah, i'm waiting for Don to pick out the good ones and send them to me
after a bit of testing (he's been driving this topic lately). We can
obviously make some progress.

Thanks,

Ingo