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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Joshua Hoblitt <jhoblitt@ifa.hawaii.edu>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>,
	duaneg@dghda.com, prakash@punnoor.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ed Sweetman <safemode2@comcast.net>,
	mark.langsdorf@amd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powernow-k8: depend on acpi-processor for SMP systems
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 20:37:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070517003733.GD16810@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070517002614.GU15763@ifa.hawaii.edu>

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 02:26:14PM -1000, Joshua Hoblitt wrote:
 > I don't think this is quiet right either as Ed Sweetman has reported
 > that this issue doesn't occur on single socket/multi-core systems.

I'm not sure why [*], because this should be preventing it..

                if (num_online_cpus() != 1) {
                        printk(KERN_ERR PFX "MP systems not supported by PSB BIOS structure\n");
                        kfree(data);
                        return -ENODEV;
                }

num_online_cpus will return 2 in a dual-core system, even though there's
just one socket.  Given they share a power plane, if there's a valid
PSB structure however, it may be usable.  Though this isn't necessarily
true for all future dual-core AMD CPUs, and the ACPI tables really
should be preferred.

	Dave

[*] unless you have the second core disabled or CONFIG_SMP=n

-- 
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-17  0:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-16 23:50 [PATCH] powernow-k8: depend on acpi-processor for SMP systems Daniel Drake
2007-05-17  0:03 ` Dave Jones
2007-05-17  0:26 ` Joshua Hoblitt
2007-05-17  0:37   ` Dave Jones [this message]
2007-05-17  0:54   ` Daniel Drake
2007-05-17  1:03     ` Ed Sweetman
2007-05-17  9:02 ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-17 10:24   ` Ed Sweetman
2007-06-04 10:52     ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-17 18:13 ` Len Brown
2007-05-17 18:23   ` Dave Jones
2007-05-17 21:29     ` Ed Sweetman
2007-05-17 21:40       ` Ed Sweetman
2007-05-17 21:52         ` Dave Jones
2007-05-17 22:15           ` Ed Sweetman
2007-05-17 21:43       ` Dave Jones

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