clockevents_register_device(levt);
 }
 
-/*
- * Detect systems with known broken BIOS implementations
- */
-static int __init lapic_check_broken_bios(struct dmi_system_id *d)
-{
-       printk(KERN_NOTICE "%s detected: disabling lapic timer.\n",
-                      d->ident);
-       local_apic_timer_disabled = 1;
-       return 0;
-}
-
-static struct dmi_system_id __initdata broken_bios_dmi_table[] = {
-       {
-               /*
-                * BIOS exports only C1 state, but uses deeper power
-                * modes behind the kernels back.
-                */
-                 .callback = lapic_check_broken_bios,
-                 .ident = "HP nx6325",
-                 .matches = {
-                       DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "HP Compaq nx6325"),
-                 },
-        },
-        {}
-};
-
 /*
  * In this functions we calibrate APIC bus clocks to the external timer.
  *
        long delta, deltapm;
        int pm_referenced = 0;
 
-       /* Detect know broken systems */
-       dmi_check_system(broken_bios_dmi_table);
+       if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_LAPIC_TIMER_BROKEN))
+               local_apic_timer_disabled = 1;
 
        /*
         * The local apic timer can be disabled via the kernel
-        * commandline or from the dmi quirk above. Register the lapic
+        * commandline or from the test above. Register the lapic
         * timer as a dummy clock event source on SMP systems, so the
         * broadcast mechanism is used. On UP systems simply ignore it.
         */
 
 extern void vide(void);
 __asm__(".align 4\nvide: ret");
 
+#define ENABLE_C1E_MASK         0x18000000
+#define CPUID_PROCESSOR_SIGNATURE       1
+#define CPUID_XFAM              0x0ff00000
+#define CPUID_XFAM_K8           0x00000000
+#define CPUID_XFAM_10H          0x00100000
+#define CPUID_XFAM_11H          0x00200000
+#define CPUID_XMOD              0x000f0000
+#define CPUID_XMOD_REV_F        0x00040000
+
+/* AMD systems with C1E don't have a working lAPIC timer. Check for that. */
+static __cpuinit int amd_apic_timer_broken(void)
+{
+       u32 lo, hi;
+       u32 eax = cpuid_eax(CPUID_PROCESSOR_SIGNATURE);
+       switch (eax & CPUID_XFAM) {
+       case CPUID_XFAM_K8:
+               if ((eax & CPUID_XMOD) < CPUID_XMOD_REV_F)
+                       break;
+       case CPUID_XFAM_10H:
+       case CPUID_XFAM_11H:
+               rdmsr(MSR_K8_ENABLE_C1E, lo, hi);
+               if (lo & ENABLE_C1E_MASK)
+                       return 1;
+                break;
+        default:
+                /* err on the side of caution */
+               return 1;
+        }
+       return 0;
+}
+
 static void __cpuinit init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 {
        u32 l, h;
 
        if (cpuid_eax(0x80000000) >= 0x80000006)
                num_cache_leaves = 3;
+
+       if (amd_apic_timer_broken())
+               set_bit(X86_FEATURE_LAPIC_TIMER_BROKEN, c->x86_capability);
 }
 
 static unsigned int __cpuinit amd_size_cache(struct cpuinfo_x86 * c, unsigned int size)
 
 #define X86_FEATURE_ARCH_PERFMON (3*32+11) /* Intel Architectural PerfMon */
 #define X86_FEATURE_PEBS       (3*32+12)  /* Precise-Event Based Sampling */
 #define X86_FEATURE_BTS                (3*32+13)  /* Branch Trace Store */
+#define X86_FEATURE_LAPIC_TIMER_BROKEN (3*32+ 14) /* lapic timer broken in C1 */
 
 /* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000001 (ecx), word 4 */
 #define X86_FEATURE_XMM3       (4*32+ 0) /* Streaming SIMD Extensions-3 */
 
 #define MSR_K7_FID_VID_CTL             0xC0010041
 #define MSR_K7_FID_VID_STATUS          0xC0010042
 
+#define MSR_K8_ENABLE_C1E              0xC0010055
+
 /* extended feature register */
 #define MSR_EFER                       0xc0000080