On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > >> I have a Sandy Bridge machine with an Intel BIOS that enables >> monitor/mwait on all but the boot CPU. With this patch, intel_idle >> works. > > What machine has this BIOS bug, and are you running > the latest version of the BIOS? Intel DQ67SW, version SWQ6710H.86A.0051.2011.0413.1154. This is not quite up-to-date -- I'll test a newer BIOS. (Enabling monitor/mwait on some but not all CPUs is obnoxious, too. I think it's just dumb luck that Linux notices at all and doesn't crash.) --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html