From: Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
joe briggs <jbriggs@briggsmedia.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: software reset
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 18:15:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030430161525.GA3834@iram.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1llxsfdpg.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>
On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 05:04:59AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> And as an interesting data point all a triple fault does on a modern
> system is to put the cpu in a weird stopped state. Some hardware
> usually the southbridge then detects this and if properly configured
> will trigger the reset line.
>
> I believe this may actually go back into history as far as the 486 but
> I have not done the researched to see how far back this behavior goes.
Try 286. It was the fastest (actually only) way to make a 286 switch back
from protected to real mode.
Gabriel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-30 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200304291037.13598.jbriggs@briggsmedia.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-04-29 15:19 ` software reset Andi Kleen
2003-04-30 7:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-04-30 11:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-04-30 16:15 ` Gabriel Paubert [this message]
2003-04-30 17:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-04-30 17:19 ` Gabriel Paubert
2003-04-30 19:31 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-04-30 23:00 ` Rafael Santos
2003-04-30 23:14 ` Andi Kleen
2003-04-30 23:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-07 6:55 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
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2003-04-29 14:37 joe briggs
2003-04-30 23:12 ` James Stevenson
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