Re: [LinuxBIOS] Kernel lock-ups??

[Stefan Reinauer]

ron minnich wrote:
> Factory bioses frequently ship with broken IRQ tables. The 'hlt'
> problem is a classic 'clock interrupts are not working' symptom. This
> is good (it's basic) and bad (it can be a bear to debug).
>
> how do vendors get around their own broken tables in the fuctory bios?
> It appears they ignore them and just jam the correct bits into
> correct places. sad, but true. We see it all the time.

Vendors also ship with ACPI. As soon as Linux detects a reasonably
complete ACPI implementation, it will not even look at IRQ tables anymore.

Stefan