On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Looking at the one laptop with this problem I could acquire access to
> it seems that the box switches to SMM mode with interrupts disabled
> for several timer ticks. During this time the i2c bus is active and it
> appears to be having a slow polled conversation with the battery or
> something attached to the battery and monitoring it.
>
> Doing
>
> while { true } do cat /proc/apm done
>
> made the box visibly stall and jerk doing X operations
Ok, now, what can be done about the stall? I assume nothing serious.
Is there at least away we can recover the proper system time after these
stalls?
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