On Wednesday 21 March 2007 12:14, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 11:37 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > The BIOS/ACPI is broken and does only expose C1, which should not
> > > switch off LAPIC. The BIOS is switching into deeper C-States behind the
> > > kernels back somehow.
> >
> > Hmm, perhaps we can check AMD && (cstate >= 2 || has a battery) ?
> > Should be doable by looking up the battery object in ACPI
>
> Which makes us rely on another ACPI feature. What guarantees that the
> ACPI tables are correct for this one ?

Nothing, but wrong C2 and wrong battery state together seems unlikely.

-Andi
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