Subject: Re: [PATCH]  ACPI: Check _PSS invalidation when BIOS report _PSS
	with all 0x80000000
From: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
To: Woody Suwalski <woodys@xandros.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, "Youquan,Song" <youquan.song@linux.intel.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
       "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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this seems like a different problem.

> >   
> On Dell Latitude E4300 and E4600 I had to add processor.nocst=1

please attach the lspci of these laptops.

> Otherwise system will become disfunctional after modprobing processor, 
> typically on start of X or on exit from X...

please use nocst to start X, and attach the /etc/X11/xorg.conf
and /var/log/Xorg.0.log after X is started.

thanks,
rui

> Do not have any of the systems on hand, but if useful can provide dmesg 
> dump...
> I have not tried with 2.6.28 or earlier, so can not say if this is a 
> regression or not.
> 
> Woody
> 

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