From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752893Ab1GDXz7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jul 2011 19:55:59 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:65025 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752784Ab1GDXzy (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jul 2011 19:55:54 -0400 From: "Harrison Frith" To: Subject: CPUIDLE? Bug report Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 00:55:45 +0100 Message-ID: <001f01cc3aa5$e752a630$b5f7f290$@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 14.0 Thread-Index: Acw6pdqRDTQiROWGSImfEE43SAUuWg== Content-Language: en-gb Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, This is my first bug report, apologies if I did anything wrong: I appear to have found some kind of strange bug, it occurs when the cpuidle driver is compiled into the kernel, it causes the machine to fail to boot and issues an MCE, it said something like "Fatal machine check - Not syncing" not sure however. Unfortunately I don't have any technical detail of the error, but my system is a Core i7 920 and GigaByte X58A-UD3R motherboard. Thank you, hopefully I won't be trapped in Windows much longer! Harrison