Re: [BUG] long freezes on thinkpad t60

Kok, Auke
2007-05-24T22:13:24Z

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2007, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>> Tried nmi_watchdog=1, but then the machine locks up hard shortly after
>> boot.
>
> NMIs in some thinkpads are bad trouble, they lock up the blasted IBM/Lenovo
> SMBIOS if they happen to hit it while it is servicing a SMI, and thinkpads
> do SMIs like crazy.

there's also a L1 ASPM issue with the e1000 chipset in the way (for T60/X60
only). Make sure you are using 2.6.21 or newer. See netdev archives for more on
that.

Auke