From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Joachim Deguara" Subject: Re: ACPI on Averatec 2370 Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 11:45:44 +0200 Message-ID: <200708091145.46500.joachim.deguara@amd.com> References: <200708081642.00581.joachim.deguara@amd.com> <5ebbd9b50708081652h55c85f9avab4500391c6b7ee0@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from outbound-dub.frontbridge.com ([213.199.154.16]:59050 "EHLO outbound9-dub-R.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756629AbXHIJqf (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 05:46:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <5ebbd9b50708081652h55c85f9avab4500391c6b7ee0@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Frank Hale Cc: Andi Kleen , Cal Peake , Linus Torvalds , Chuck Ebbert , Gabriel C , Kernel Mailing List , Kernel ACPI Mailing List , len.brown@intel.com, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton On Thursday 09 August 2007 01:52:37 Frank Hale wrote: > I have the latest BIOS update for my laptop which is buggy I suppose. > There has been only one update this year if my memory serves me > correctly. Is there any hope to fix this or am I at the mercy of the > hardware vendor which apparenlty doesn't look like they will release > another patch this year. You can fix this with the kernel parameter nolapic_timer as Cal reported earlier that working right, or try Andi's patch to automagically mark the lapic as bad. This should work fine with ACPI. The BIOS is at fault but Andi's patch just works around the BIOS' incompleteness and has been successful for two other people. -Joachim