Re: Pentium DEATH in user-mode

linux kernel account (linker@nightshade.z.ml.org)
Sun, 9 Nov 1997 13:04:37 -0500 (EST)

Is there some hidden kernel option "I've gone crazy and soldered a wire
between irq 8 on the ISA bus and the reset line?"

I would guess you wouldn't want to use this with the RTC support :)

On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Alan Cox wrote:

> > 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
>