From: Akio Takebe Subject: Re: [PATCH]: kexec: framework and i386 (Take VI) Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 17:46:43 +0900 Message-ID: <9CC670E999D98Ctakebe_akio@jp.fujitsu.com> References: <20060426060834.GA26102@verge.net.au> <20060502081741.GA11844@verge.net.au> <97C66E817B656Ctakebe_akio@jp.fujitsu.com> <20060505010347.GP6943@verge.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060505010347.GP6943@verge.net.au> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: horms Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Akio Takebe , Magnus Damm , Isaku Yamahata , Mark Williamson List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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. Best Regards, Akio Takebe