Re: [arch-general] powernow-k8 fails to load with linux 3.7.2

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 03:17:04PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Can you try this (entirely untested) patch?
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
> b/drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
> index 0d048f6..7b0d49d 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
> @@ -1030,4 +1030,11 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(acpi_pstate_strict,
>  late_initcall(acpi_cpufreq_init);
>  module_exit(acpi_cpufreq_exit);
>  
> +static const struct x86_cpu_id acpi_cpufreq_ids[] = {
> +	X86_FEATURE_MATCH(X86_FEATURE_ACPI),
> +	X86_FEATURE_MATCH(X86_FEATURE_HW_PSTATE),
> +	{}

Yep, that should be one way to fix it.

One other fix IMHO would be if udev is looking at CPUID bits, to teach
it to check the proper P-States feature bits on Intel and AMD:

On Intel: CPUID_0x00000001[ECX] bit 7
On AMD  : CPUID_0x80000007[EDX] bit 7

AFAICT.

Thanks.

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