On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > > It's most likely bad SMM code in the BIOS that blocks the CPU too long > > and is triggered in idle. You can verify that by using idle=poll > > (not recommended for production, just for testing) and see if it goes away. > > > > WTF, since when do *desktops* use SMM? Are you telling me that we have > to worry about these stupid ACPI/SMM hardware bugs on the desktop too?
It's a general platform thing and has been around for ages now... Intel's ICH* definitely use it for example and those are on a lot of desktop systems. For example, turning on "Legacy USB support" will generate periodic SMIs. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
