Messages in this thread | | | From | Patrick McFarland <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.16-rc1-g3ee68c4: powernow-k7: -ENODEV | Date | Sun, 22 Jan 2006 18:12:30 -0500 |
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On Sunday 22 January 2006 00:19, Dave Jones wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 05:57:25PM +0100, Thomas Meyer wrote: > > I switched my config from up to smp support with 2 processors. > > > > trying to modprobe powernow-k7 gives me now: > > " > > cpufreq-core: trying to register driver powernow-k7 > > cpufreq-core: adding CPU 0 > > cpufreq-core: initialization failed > > cpufreq-core: no CPU initialized for driver powernow-k7 > > cpufreq-core: unregistering CPU 0 > > " > > powernow-k7 doesn't support SMP. > The ubuntu folks tried to make single CPUs work with a SMP kernel, > but it still didn't work out aparently. The only K7's with powernow > aren't SMP capable anyway iirc.
ATM, theres a work around for that. -386 kernels don't have smp enabled, and powernow-k7 works fine for them. So if you're using Ubuntu, and absolutely need powernow-k7 to work, don't use the -k7 kernel, use the -386 kernel.
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/26713
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