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- From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Some more on NMI problems (some meager advancement)
- Message-ID: <7476@skye.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 12:49:16 GMT
- References: <1992Sep7.014351.946@ponds.uucp>
- Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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- In article <1992Sep7.014351.946@ponds.uucp> rivers@ponds.uucp (Thomas David Rivers) writes:
- >Well, I thought I would relay my current status with the NMI
- >investigation.
-
- I had a problem with spurious NMIs that was solved by removing the
- halt instruction from the idle loop. It's been suggested that the
- reason for this is that memory is not being refreshed while the
- processor is halted.
-
- -- Richard
- --
- Richard Tobin,
- AI Applications Institute, R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk
- Edinburgh University.
-