On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Vasily Khoruzhick <anars...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 26 of September 2010 13:53:35 Stefan Biereigel wrote: > > > Hello Everyone, > > just to add on to reports of this problem, there was a Thread here in > > LKML some months ago targeting the same problem (but not really > > attacking it at the Chipset driver). As I have one of those Laptops with > > a 945GM-Chipset and am stuck with the same Problem (disabled tickless > > now as a workaround and set ticks to 1000) I could maybe do some testing > > of patches. > > So what I can summarize is what the others did before: Disabling CPU1 > > helps, adding nohz=off helps, changing the Clocksource afterwards helps, > > binding the Interrupt does NOT help. > > So here's the Link to the old Discussion with follow-ups, maybe you can > > get some furter information from there. > > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2010-05/msg03696.html > > We targeted the BIOS itself as everyone in this thread happened to own > > an Phoenix BIOS with some special version string. > > best, Stefan > > Yep, my laptop has Phoenix BIOS too. Btw, this BIOS has buggy DSDT (thermal > and battery don't work reliably without patching DSDT). But I tested with > and > without patched DSDT - so my custom DSDT is not cause of bug in my case. > My laptop (original acer aspire one) uses an H2O Insyde BIOS. I had never heard of Insyde until I bought the computer. Apparently, Insyde's H2O line is EFI firmware.... -- Alexander Lam
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