Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 May 2007 11:27:36 -1000 | From | Joshua Hoblitt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Kconfig powernow-k8 driver should depend on ACPI P-States driver |
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On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 04:04:40PM -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: > Duane Griffin wrote: > >On 16/05/07, Prakash Punnoor <prakash@punnoor.de> wrote: > >>Maybe you want to give a hint in the p states driver help text? > > > >I think a hint is the right thing to do, but in the PowerNow! driver > >rather than the p states one. How about adding something like this to > >the X86_POWERNOW_K8 (and X86_POWERNOW_K7?) help text: > > Please hold off this patch until we've gained a more complete > understanding of the issues and workarounds (which will probably lead to > us writing a better patch anyway)
I agree - the issue is more complicated that I had thought. I received an off list message saying that this dependency isn't required on a single-socket Athlon X2 system. So it sounds like isn't an SMP setup issue as much as it is a multi-socket or perhaps just an issue with my vendor (Tyan).
-J
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