Re: [PATCH] NMI trap revised (was Re: NMI errors in 2.0.30??)

Riccardo Facchetti (fizban@mbox.vol.it)
Fri, 9 May 1997 22:41:34 +0200 (MET DST)


On Fri, 9 May 1997 tenthumbs@cybernex.net wrote:

> Maybe, it would be better to provide a method fo rextra hardware setup. How
> about something like the attached patch to setup.S. If you need it, you just
> turn it on; if you don't, nothing extra is generated.
>

If one know his/her hardware enought to activate this extra set up,
it may be best if he/she set up correctly the BIOS parameters instead of
asking the kernel to set up these bits.

Ciao,
Riccardo.