Re: [BUG] long freezes on thinkpad t60

From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Date: Thu May 24 2007 - 18:08:33 EST


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.

--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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