machine check exception

David K Altobelli dalto at us.ibm.com
Wed Feb 12 05:47:36 EST 2003


Anton,

If a machine has FWNMI, signified by the presense of the "ibm,nmi-register"
token,
it will not have the "check-exception" token.  LPAR machines are required
to
support FWNMI.

> Paul just reminded me that we should probably be doing rtas
check-exception
> when we get a machine check. I assume this isnt required on a machine
> with FWNMI since it does the work for us, right?

Dave


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