Re: mec and resets

Michael Lorenz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sgimips
Message-ID <20080804101331.503e5430@morgoth>
Hello,

On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 22:20:42 +0900
Izumi Tsutsui <[email protected]> wrote:

> [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > Can you break into ddb? (send a break on serial console, I actually
> > have no idea how to do it with a keyboard on sgimips)
> 
> According to sgimips/sgimips/cpu.c:cpu_intr(), it doesn't handle
> nested interrupts so we can't get ddb prompt if a running kernel
> sticks in interrupt handlers. (and it also causes watchdog reset)
> 
> Maybe we should make cpu_intr() platform specific like pmax..

Or adapt the interrupt handling scheme from arch/powerpc - in a way
crime's interrupt registers pretty closely resemble an old-style Apple
interrupt controller.

have fun
Michael
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