kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason...

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 04:48:50PM +0100, Christoph Höger wrote:
> > Why do you think it is a faulty driver? For me it seems that most
> > obvious reason for triggering a NMI is a buggy hardware.
> I know that there are drivers that produce NMI faults. I never saw that
> on linux, though.

NMI is almost always indicating hardware problems and there are very few
software ways to cause them on x86.