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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:34:49 +0400
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC 5/6] x86, NMI, Add support to notify hardware error with
	unknown NMI
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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?

	-- Cyrill