On 4 June 2014 10:39, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
It's a kind of "emergency button" on real machines. On PCs it sends an NMI
and this results in some kind of crash dump if the OS is configured
appropriately. The command may be ill-named for historical reasons, but the
effect is not x86-specific.
OK, so our callback function name should be sensibly named
to match what the effect is supposed to be, and we should have
a sensibly named command, and we should make "nmi" be
a historical-legacy-backwards-compatibility command alias
(possibly only exposed for x86).