From: Patrick McFarland <diablod3@gmail.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Meyer <thomas.mey@web.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc1-g3ee68c4: powernow-k7: -ENODEV
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 18:12:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601221812.30580.diablod3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060122051929.GA6093@redhat.com>
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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Patrick "Diablo-D3" McFarland || diablod3@gmail.com
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids,
we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-21 16:57 2.6.16-rc1-g3ee68c4: powernow-k7: -ENODEV Thomas Meyer
2006-01-22 5:19 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-22 23:12 ` Patrick McFarland [this message]
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