Re: [2.4.18] preemptible patch causing freeze

Pawel Kot (pkot@linuxnews.pl)
Sun, 12 May 2002 19:02:26 +0200 (CEST)


On Sun, 12 May 2002, Mikael Pettersson wrote:

> Are you sure you were using this exact .config without the
> CONFIG_PREEMPT=y in 2.4.18 vanilla? The problem is that recent
> Dell laptops with local APICs are known to have buggy BIOSen
> that cause exactly the kinds of problems you described (hangs
> at BIOS and power-management events).

Aaaaargh. The config was really the same, but I tested the behaviour on
the kernel with APICs disabled (dunno how it happend). The freeze does
take place with 2.4.18 vanilla with APCI enabled.

Sorry for the false alert. Going to try 19pre soon.

pkot

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