Re: Machine Check Exception on dual core Xeon

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On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 02:29:21 -0400 Dave Jones wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 10:27:52PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>  > On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:30:49 -0400 Dave Jones wrote:
>  > 
>  > >  > You missed the blatantly obvious error message:
>  > >  > "This is not a software problem!"
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > Immediately followed by:
>  > >  > "contact your hardware vendor"
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > Please follow that advice
>  > > 
>  > > Maybe someone needs to implement <blink> tags for printk ;-)
>  > 
>  > oops, I didn't do it for MCEs.. :)
>  > and I used reverse video since I dislike blinking.
>  > 
>  > photo:  http://www.xenotime.net/linux/doc/kernel-msg-hilite.jpg
> 
> Oh my.  People take me seriously far too often :-)
> Could be handy for some frequently ignored bits of text
> (like that mce msg), but if this gets overused it just looks
> like a horrible mess imo.

Nah, I just did it for fun/challenge/experience/blablabla.
Yes, it could/would be overused too easily.  I recognized
that very quickly.

> Now I'm just waiting for someone to go one step further
> and make openbsd style 'white on blue' kernel text ;)

nope.

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~Randy
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