Re: recurrent soft/hard lockup on CPU
On Sat, 07 May 2016, Seb wrote:
> 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.
Expect at least one firmware (BIOS/UEFI) update every two months for a
while, yet.
> > 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?
Yes.
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Henrique Holschuh
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