Re: [PATCH] x86: nmi - fix incorrect NMI watchdog used by default

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Sat May 31 2008 - 05:17:22 EST


[Sitsofe Wheeler - Sat, May 31, 2008 at 08:42:06AM +0100]
| Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
|
| > The commit
| >
| > commit 4b82b277707a39b97271439c475f186f63ec4692
| > Author: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
| > Date: Sat May 24 19:36:35 2008 +0400
| >
| > set nmi_watchdog to NMI_IO_APIC as by default. This causes hangs on some
| > machines with buggy watchdogs. Fix it - i.e. restore old behaviour.
|
| Thanks for fixing this. Just for the record, the problem also seemed to
| depend on the ACPI Video option. Removing that also stopped the problem...
| However I can confirm that I don't have a boot hang with next-0530.
|
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| Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/
|

ok, thanks for testing and additional info

- Cyrill -
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