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Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:52:23 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] boot: ignore early NMIs
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Okay, I need to ask this...

Is there a reason to not just simply block these NMIs during the kexec
sequence?

	-hpa


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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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