[ltp] (fwd) Re: [BUG] long freezes on thinkpad t60

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

Head's up for T60 and X60 onwers.

----- Forwarded message from "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com> -----

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

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