Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 May 2007 09:02:28 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] powernow-k8: depend on acpi-processor for SMP systems |
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Hi!
> powernow-k8 uses PSB BIOS tables to read frequency info on UP systems, but > on SMP it requires the acpi-processor driver. Kconfig should be updated > accordingly to avoid the issues that users are running into. > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8075 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178585 > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> > > Index: linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig > =================================================================== > --- linux.orig/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig > +++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig > @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ config X86_POWERNOW_K7_ACPI > config X86_POWERNOW_K8 > tristate "AMD Opteron/Athlon64 PowerNow!" > select CPU_FREQ_TABLE > + select ACPI_PROCESSOR if SMP > depends on EXPERIMENTAL > help > This adds the CPUFreq driver for mobile AMD Opteron/Athlon64 processors.
It is still possible to run SMP kernel on UP machine -- so this sounds wrong.
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