From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Janosch Machowinski Subject: Re: ACPI/APIC bug Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 18:22:55 +0200 Message-ID: <4638BADF.5080900@tzi.de> References: <46389B41.3060204@tzi.de> <20070502154427.GA18127@khazad-dum.debian.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailhost.informatik.uni-bremen.de ([134.102.201.18]:42539 "EHLO informatik.uni-bremen.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2993480AbXEBQW6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 12:22:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070502154427.GA18127@khazad-dum.debian.net> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Henrique de Moraes Holschuh schrieb: > On Wed, 02 May 2007, Janosch Machowinski wrote: >> can someone with more knowledge than me please take a look at this bug : >> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8367 >> and say weather this is a bios or linux bug. > > It is about a bug on a ASUS M6Ne laptop, which hard-locks if the lapic is > used. Booting with nolapic fixes the crash. > > Janosh, does your M6Ne also crashes hard if the lapic is enabled? That > information is not clear in the bug report. Yep, my M6Ne also crashes if lapic is enabled and I press the magic key combination (Fn+F8). > > Anyway, looks like, at the very least, a blacklist entry for that machine > would be in order. And that's supposing we are doing nothing wrong while > setting up the lapic in it, as I know nothing about lapics. > > I don't trust Windows to be using the lapic at all, if you know how to > verify that, you might want to do so and send that information to the bug > report. I don't have windows installed on this machine, so I can't say anything about it.