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Re: NMI problems



Matan Ziv-Av wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Izar Tarandach wrote:
>
> > From arch/i386/traps.c, I came under the impression that parity and
> > other ram errors would get their own messages. On the other hand,
> > anything caused by "other factors" would come up as unknown. Is
> > that not the actual case ? What other reasons could come from memory
> > errors that are not covered by those two cases ?
>
> That's assuming that the hardware sets the necessary bits, which is not
> always true.

I see. Thanks. Do they "do not set the necessary bits" as a bug, or by
nature
of the "defect" (for lack of a better word) causes the bits to be written
wrongly ? Do you have any resource you may point me to that would give me
some
background on this (apart from 4 years studying Electronics on a
university :) ?
Thanks,

--izar
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                                  Izar Tarandach
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