Re: Xeon X3430 = immediate panic

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 04:43:11PM +0000, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> >How do they do that? Do they modify interrupt vector 13 so it doesn't
> >panic the kernel but instead sets some variable?
> 
> Don't know about Linux, but here's the FreeBSD code:
> 
> http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/i386/i386/identcpu.c#L966

It definitely contains a trap handler but it doesn't look like
they use for probing Intel CPUs.

        Kind regards

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