From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H . J . Lu" Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 21:19:08 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] possible bug in the efi real time clock Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 12:51:03PM -0700, Uros Prestor wrote: > Stephane Eranian wrote: > > > > On the BigSur B1 stepping with BIOS 60 machine, it crashes when running > > > the hwclock. Could it be a bug in the efi real time clock? > > > > > Hard to tell from this description. Could you give more details > > like what does appear on the screen ? Could you capture the "tombstone" > > (regs dump) and send it to me. I don't have a Bigsur B1 so I can't > > really reproduce the problem. > > What happens is a complete system lockup. There is no kernel register dump, > panic or oops. The screen just goes blank. You can lock up the box by > simply running /sbin/hwclock. > In my case, /sbin/hwclock causes the instant reboot on B1 BigSur and it crashes so bad that I have to unplug the power cord to get my machine back. B1 stepping is quite different than A2 stepping on BigSur, even with the same BIOS, Build 59. H.J.