Re: Status

[Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>]

On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, schmitz wrote:

> Finn Thain wrote:
> > 
> > From Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt --
> > 
> > "panic:
> > 
> > The value in this file represents the number of seconds the kernel 
> > waits before rebooting on a panic. When you use the software watchdog, 
> > the recommended setting is 60."
...
> All good - now how do we generate a NMI - by software?

In software, you'd just enable the software watchdog so as to trigger a 
panic and also set the reboot-on-panic timer described above.

I mentioned NMI because (on a Mac at least) it is amenable to hardware 
hacks via the programmer switch.

Finn