Re: recurrent soft/hard lockup on CPU
On Sat, 7 May 2016 17:55:08 -0300,
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 06 May 2016, Seb wrote:
>> May 5 22:48:19 otaria kernel: [ 6706.415698] Hardware name: LENOVO
>> 10FWCTO1WW/SKYBAY, BIOS FWKT38A 01/28/2016
> Please update that BIOS. It is too old (and no, I am *not* joking).
A few months is already too old? Indeed there's an April version
available at Lenovo. I'll try updating this.
> People, as a rule of thumb: if it has an Intel Skylake processor or
> newer (6th gen Core, for example), consider updating the BIOS *first*
> should you get any sort of crash, kernel oops, or other really weird
> behavior.
> Unfortunately, there is a good chance the firmware update won't fix
> this particular problem. But it will fix a few others that cause
> unpredictable behavior.
By firmware, do you mean the BIOS in this case?
Thanks,
--
Seb
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