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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Machine Check Exception on dual core Xeon
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On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 10:27:52PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
 > On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:30:49 -0400 Dave Jones wrote:
 > 
 > >  > You missed the blatantly obvious error message:
 > >  > "This is not a software problem!"
 > >  > 
 > >  > Immediately followed by:
 > >  > "contact your hardware vendor"
 > >  > 
 > >  > Please follow that advice
 > > 
 > > Maybe someone needs to implement <blink> tags for printk ;-)
 > 
 > oops, I didn't do it for MCEs.. :)
 > and I used reverse video since I dislike blinking.
 > 
 > photo:  http://www.xenotime.net/linux/doc/kernel-msg-hilite.jpg

Oh my.  People take me seriously far too often :-)
Could be handy for some frequently ignored bits of text
(like that mce msg), but if this gets overused it just looks
like a horrible mess imo.

Now I'm just waiting for someone to go one step further
and make openbsd style 'white on blue' kernel text ;)

	Dave

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