Re: [RFC] Fix NMI watchdog documentation

From: Zwane Mwaikambo (zwane@linuxpower.ca)
Date: Sat May 24 2003 - 22:51:59 EST


On Sat, 24 May 2003 Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:

> but 'dmesg' on my Dell Latitude C840 laptop tells me:
>
> Dell Latitude with broken BIOS detected. Refusing to enable the local APIC.
>
> Is this nmi_watchdog="forget about it dave" time, or is there some way to
> get this to work?

It's known broken with that configuration and hence blacklisted.

Zwane
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