the following patch was just integrated into master: commit f2674cc3d7e90ed01af8449f8786aa7f42cb84b8 Author: Sven Schnelle svens@stackframe.org Date: Wed Jun 29 15:05:28 2011 +0200
i82801gx: read RTC status register to prevent IRQ storm
My Thinkpad appeared dead. After investigation, it turned out that the RTC Alarm was triggering an RTC PM1 SMI, but the SMI handler didn't read the status register, so it was triggered again.
This is a really nasty situation, as it means you have to dissemble your Notebook just to unplug the RTC battery.
Change-Id: I5ac611e8a72deb5f38c86486dbe0693804935723 Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle svens@stackframe.org
See http://review.coreboot.org/67 for details.
-gerrit