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Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 11:18:59 -0700
From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] x86, NMI, Treat unknown NMI as hardware error
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> Random thought, in the Firmware first mode of HEST (which is the only way
> GHES records get produced??), does an SCI happen first to jump into the
> firmware for processing, then an NMI?

Either that or there is a separate service processor which handles it.
Presumably it depends a lot on the particular system.

-Andi