experimental 2.6.19 kernel preview.

[Dave Jones]

On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 05:38:44AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
 > On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 10:22 +0100, dragoran wrote:
 > > ok now tested on my core 2 duo laptop (also using x86_64).
 > 
 > > what does this mean?
 > > I don't see it with 2.6.18 and I have not seen any problems because of 
 > > it (yet)
 > > 
 > you need to disable nmi_watchdog (by putting nmi_watchdog=0)
 > the code is just broken in recent kernels :(
 > (there's people in my team at Intel working on fixing this)
 > 
 > Dave: please disable nmi_watchdog by default in FC x86-64 kernels.. at
 > least until the worst bugs are fixed (but even then it makes little
 > sense to have it enabled anyway)

x86-64 has had it default on for ages though, it's only recently
that i386 changed to match.  It's odd that it's only now causing problems.

		Dave

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