Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:04:54 -0600 | From | Clark Williams <> | Subject | Re: [RT] [RFC] simple SMI detector |
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:49:18 +0100 Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote: > > > > My concern about the SMI disable module is that it can damage Joe > > users hardware. I have at least two reports where the CPU got fried > > and some others where people got confused because chips started > > behaving weird and it took quite a time to figure out that they used > > the SMI disabler. A big fat warning about this code is definitely > > necessary. > > > > Thanks, > > > I suppose the non joe user could flash their motherboard with > linuxcore and therefore do not distrub by SMI :) >
Except for the fact that linuxcore is unaware of the specific requirements a particular motherboard has for thermal management.
Turning off SMI's unconditionally is a *bad* idea. Better to start telling hardware vendors that we can't use their platform because of unexplained latencies (which we presume to be SMI's).
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