On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 09:37:58 PM Tom Gundersen wrote: > [dropped arch-general, added kernel folks] > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Leonid Isaev <lisaev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:10:19 +0100 > > Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 5:47 AM, Leonid Isaev <lisaev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > I just installed linux 3.7.2 from [testing] on an AMD system and > >> > noticed that powernow-k8 is not loaded. > >> > >> Probably due to this: > >> <http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e1f0b8e9b04a262834ed1>. > > [...] > > >> Hm, I thought acpi_cpufreq should have been loaded instead, no idea > >> why that does not happen for you. Could you try loading it manually? > > > > Neither acpi_cpufreq nor powernow_k8 is loaded automatically which of course > > leads to failure of all custom units configuring ondemand governor via > > sysfs. Manually modprob'ing acpi_cpufreq does work and indeed properly scales > > down the frequancy, but is accompanied by an info-level kernel message > > "acpi-cpufreq: overriding BIOS provided _PSD data". > > > > So, if the cpufreq driver works OK for other AMD users, I'll happily blame > > asus... > > Matthew, Andre, Rafael, > > Is what Leonid experinces above expected behavior or is this a bug? He > is using stock Arch kernel, which is almost vanilla 3.7.3 (see [0] for > the applied patches, nothing looks relevant). Well, I was afraid that something like this would happen after the recent AMD cpufreq changes. Andre, do we have a clear way to address these problems? Rafael -- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center. -- 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
