Re: [BUG] long freezes on thinkpad t60

[Kok, Auke]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 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.

there's also a L1 ASPM issue with the e1000 chipset in the way (for T60/X60 
only). Make sure you are using 2.6.21 or newer. See netdev archives for more on 
that.

Auke
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