diff --git a/share/man/man4/ddb.4 b/share/man/man4/ddb.4 index 42135af13d04..352ffe2e1d54 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/ddb.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/ddb.4 @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd November 10, 2018 +.Dd November 30, 2018 .Dt DDB 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -1491,17 +1491,8 @@ might be defined to have special handling, and might be defined to simply panic and reboot. .El .Sh HINTS -On machines with an ISA expansion bus, a simple NMI generation card can be -constructed by connecting a push button between the A01 and B01 (CHCHK# and -GND) card fingers. -Momentarily shorting these two fingers together may cause the bridge chipset to -generate an NMI, which causes the kernel to pass control to -.Nm . -Some bridge chipsets do not generate a NMI on CHCHK#, so your mileage may vary. The NMI allows one to break into the debugger on a wedged machine to diagnose problems. -Other bus' bridge chipsets may be able to generate NMI using bus specific -methods. There are many PCI and PCIe add-in cards which can generate NMI for debugging. Modern server systems typically use IPMI to generate signals to enter the