Re: 2.6.9-rc1 Latitude APM suspend freeze

[Mikael Pettersson]

Hugh Dickins writes:
 > Been suffering APM suspend freezes with 2.6.9-rc1 on Dell Latitude C610.
 > Now found that you have removed local_apic_kills_bios(),
 > which existed precisely to protect against that.

As the original author of the local_apic_kills_bios() code,
I have no idea why it was removed. Lots of Dell Latitude and
Inspiron BIOSen hang hard with local APIC.

As a workaround, you can boot with "nolapic".
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