Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755289AbXEQJH3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 05:07:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754112AbXEQJHX (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 05:07:23 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:4561 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753655AbXEQJHW (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 05:07:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 09:02:28 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Daniel Drake Cc: davej@redhat.com, duaneg@dghda.com, prakash@punnoor.de, jhoblitt@ifa.hawaii.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] powernow-k8: depend on acpi-processor for SMP systems Message-ID: <20070517090227.GB3975@ucw.cz> References: <20070516235050.9B4237B409F@zog.reactivated.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070516235050.9B4237B409F@zog.reactivated.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1354 Lines: 35 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 > > 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. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/