Re: Warning: confirmed severe issue after Yosemite update on Macbook Airs -- resolved

2015-02-11 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-11-12 10:45, Christian Kastner wrote: upgrading OSX to Yosemite on a Macbook Air (Mid 2013) and (Mid 2014) apparently also updates the firmware in a way that triggers an interrrupt storm in Linux. This is related to the i915 driver. The result is kworder thread running full steam, and

Warning: confirmed severe issue after Yosemite update on Macbook Airs

2014-11-12 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi, upgrading OSX to Yosemite on a Macbook Air (Mid 2013) and (Mid 2014) apparently also updates the firmware in a way that triggers an interrrupt storm in Linux. This is related to the i915 driver. The result is kworder thread running full steam, and this will eat away your battery in no time.