Re: Pentium DEATH in user-mode

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 9 Nov 1997 11:24:42 +0000 (GMT)

> okay so what happens if you run this on a SMP box, will only one CPU die? how
> does the kernel handle this?

The rest dies a second or so later.

> what about watch dog hardware? what does it do? Does it reboot the system.

Yep. Software watchdog probably wont, hardware ones will. Actually there
is no excuse for not having watchdogs on a PC since the minimal watchdog
consists of linking IRQ 8 to the reset line and using the CMOS clock.

Alan