From: Horms Subject: Re: [PATCH]: kexec: framework and i386 (Take VI) Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 13:46:45 +0900 Message-ID: <20060507044644.GI8374@verge.net.au> References: <20060426060834.GA26102@verge.net.au> <20060502081741.GA11844@verge.net.au> <97C66E817B656Ctakebe_akio@jp.fujitsu.com> <20060505010347.GP6943@verge.net.au> <9CC670E999D98Ctakebe_akio@jp.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9CC670E999D98Ctakebe_akio@jp.fujitsu.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Akio Takebe Cc: Isaku Yamahata , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Mark Williamson , Magnus Damm List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 05:46:43PM +0900, Akio Takebe wrote: > Hi, Horms > > Thank you for your reply. > > >On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 04:16:22PM +0900, Akio Takebe wrote: > >> Hi, Simon and Magnus > >> > >> I have one question. > >> When Xen is panic, I seemed kexec is not called. > >> Only when dom0 is panic, kexec is called. > > > >That is a good point. > > > >> But in the case of nmi=dom0, can we use kexec by pushing NMI button? > >> Am I righit? > > > >Probably, I will have to investigate a little further. > >Though, I'm not sure that I have ever seen an NMI button. > >Are you thinking about the INIT button on some ia64 boxes? > >That is a bit different to NMI on x86. > I said about the NMI bottun on x86. > Many x86 servers (not PC) have a NMI bottun > like many ia64 servers have a INIT bottun. Ok thanks, I haven't seen such a machine. I'll look into simulating it in software. -- Horms http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/