Current message is: printk("Uhhuh. NMI received. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue\n"); printk("You probably have a hardware problem with your RAM chips\n"); AOL would prefer it be more descriptive and more professional, like: printk("NMI received. Memory parity error detected. Attempting to continue.\n"); printk("You probably have a hardware problem with your RAM chips\n"); The message is inside a function called mem_parity_error in arch/{i386,x86_64}/kernel/traps.c
What type of a change are we looking at making here? Currently mem_parity_error for both x86 and x86_64 print out this: >>>"Uhhuh. NMI received. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue" >>>"You probably have a hardware problem with your RAM chips" Shall we change it to something like this? >>>"NMI memory parity error recieved, trying to continue" >>>"This might indicate that the RAM has incurred a hardware error." Larry Woodman
There was a lengthly internal debate about generating "more professional error messages" for serious kernel problems. During this discussion, which was in February of 2005, the idea of making such changes (deviating from Upstream) was shot down. Thus, I'm closing this as WONTFIX and removing it from the U7 Proposed list.