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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	mingo@elte.hu, ak@suse.de
Subject: Re: [patch 02/13] ACPI, i686, x86_64: fix laptop bootup hang in init_acpi()
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 18:01:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070209180128.GA8586@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070209142622.GD26414@khazad-dum.debian.net>

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:26:22PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> According to a patch sent to LKML a while ago that blacklisted all ThinkPads
> from nmi_watchdog, the ThinkPad SMBIOS does INT 0x10 or something else that
> will cause double or triple-faults if an NMI happens while in SMBIOS mode.

This is hardly unique to Thinkpads - huge arrays of things can trigger 
SMM on pretty much any laptop. It's rarer on desktops, but some servers 
have similar issues.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-09 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-06  0:09 [patch 02/13] ACPI, i686, x86_64: fix laptop bootup hang in init_acpi() akpm
2007-02-09  6:14 ` Len Brown
2007-02-09 14:26   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-02-09 18:01     ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2007-02-09 19:13       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh

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