Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Kernel stability on baytrail machines | Date | Thu, 03 Mar 2016 17:16:27 +0100 | From | Michal Feix <> |
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Hello everyone,
aprox. 6 months ago I started facing random freezes on my baytrail based computers I manage. It took me a while before I found a bug report in freedesktop bugzilla named "complete freeze after: drm/i915/vlv: WA for Turbo and RC6 to work together" - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88012. It took a few more months for this bug to escalate into MAJOR importance and was later moved into kernel bugzilla as "intel_idle.max_cstate=1 required on baytrail to prevent crashes" - https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109051.
Based on the ammount of comments in both bugtickets and probably connected observations on different linux distros forums, this seems to be a showstopper on mainstream Baytrail based machines for many users. I'm trying to understand, how visible (and thus important) is this instability across baytrail machines on linux kernel across population.
I do feel that the importance of the mentioned bug is currently underestimated. Can anyone here give a note, how much current linux kernel is supposed to be stable on general baytrail machines?
Cheers,
-- Michael
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