From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 16:07:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 16:07:16 -0500 Received: from dbl.q-ag.de ([80.146.160.66]:46487 "EHLO dbl.q-ag.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 16:07:15 -0500 Message-ID: <3E29C3E4.4010304@colorfullife.com> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 22:15:16 +0100 From: Manfred Spraul User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021202 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Florent CHANTRET" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [INTEL PII BUG] Still SMBALERT# spontaneous shutdown on VAIO Serie F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > >Still having the problem of the spontaneous shutdown on a VAIO serie F >laptop due to a bug in the thermal sensor of the PII celeron. There is no >ACPI, nor APM, nor I2C / SMBus builded in the kernel. > > Are you sure that the shutdown is connected to the errata? The system shutdown is probably triggered by the BIOS SMI handler - SMI can interrupt the linux kernel, and the bios takes over control of the system. Are there any bios upgrades for laptop? -- Manfred