Messages in this thread | | | From | Thomas Renninger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] X86: Solve Dell Latitudes do not reboot on x86_64 more generally | Date | Mon, 7 Nov 2011 15:25:13 +0100 |
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On Monday, November 07, 2011 02:59:24 PM Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 01:44:03AM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote: > > There are quite some reports that those do not reboot: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/833705 > > ->E6520, E6220 > > http://www.linux-club.de/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=114459&start=20 > > ->E5520 > > and some more already are blacklisted > > It's a bug in the SMM code on these machines, and it goes away if you > disable VT-D. Let's try to actually fix it How do you intend to fix that? From description above it sounds as if this problem is not fixable from OS side.
Thomas
> rather than adding to the > blacklist, otherwise we'll just end up with another batch of broken > Dells later on.
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