On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 16:56 +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote: > But most often this happens if people upgrade their CPU and do not > update their BIOS. > Or the vendor does not recognise the new CPU even if the BIOS got > updated. Maybe some of those people just didn't realize it was disabled in BIOS? If you tell users that it's a firmware bug then they'll probably just give up. > The itself message might be an enhancment, IMO it's not worth a patch. Why do you think so? I spent an hour on hunting down the BIOS upgrade, only to find that it didn't improve anything. It was a day later that I realized that it might be a BIOS option; and the option was literally the _last_ option in the whole BIOS setup. :) This message would have saved the day. > But do not revert the FW_BUG part! Sure, you have a point here. How about this patch? --- powernow-k8: On load failure, tell user to update BIOS and enable in BIOS setup Signed-off-by: Marti Raudsepp <marti@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c @@ -800,6 +800,8 @@ * www.amd.com */ printk(KERN_ERR FW_BUG PFX "No PSB or ACPI _PSS objects\n"); + printk(KERN_ERR PFX "Make sure that your BIOS is up to date" + " and Cool'N'Quiet support is enabled in BIOS setup\n"); return -ENODEV; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cpufreq" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
