From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JlROL-0002Xx-Ik for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:18:49 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JlROK-0002XZ-Ud for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:18:49 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JlROK-0002XS-Ks for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:18:48 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JlROK-000422-A3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:18:48 -0400 Message-ID: <48038397.6060202@firstfloor.org> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:17:27 +0200 From: Andi Kleen MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4800DF6A.5010700@web.de> <87zlrwvj00.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <480382AA.8060004@web.de> In-Reply-To: <480382AA.8060004@web.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86: Introduce CPU_INTERRUPT_NMI Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jan Kiszka Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org >> Could you please add a monitor command to raise it too? Some OS support >> triggering debugging code from NMIs and that might be useful >> inside qemu too. > > Will it be enough just the raise the NMI? Yes that's enough. > Or doesn't you also have to > modify some hardware state somewhere? Not needed. > Maybe you could provide an example > for what you have in mind (it's trivial to hack such an extension, I'm > just curious to understand its background). Basically it would emulate an NMI button which can be found on some systems. -Andi