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From: Faye Pearson <faye@clara.net>
To: Andrew McGregor <andrew@indranet.co.nz>
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Subject: Re: [ACPI] acpi_os_queue_for_execution()
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Andrew McGregor [andrew@indranet.co.nz] wrote:
> So *that* is why ACPI kernels are so slow on my laptop (Dell i8k), and make 
> so much heat.  I bet one of those threads ends up busy looping because of 
> other brokenness.

My laptop was a lot happier when I removed the GPE _L00 method from my
DSDT which was busylooping sending a processor 0x80 event.


Faye

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