On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:17:04PM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dave Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:28:15PM +0300, blackman@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > It seems that powernow cool and quiet is not compiled since when I modprobe > > > powernow_k8 says fatal module not found... So I got no cool and quiet... > > It's not modular, but built statically into the x86-64 kernel. > > It's only a module on x86. > > Why is it a module on x86 but not x86-64? historical reasons. Initially, the x84-64 platform only supported powernow-k8, so there was little reason to make it modular. With the advent of Intel's EM64T's with speedstep however, it's no longer the case. I need to have a big sweep-n-clear of the config options. There's a bunch of others that are enabled but shouldn't be, and vice versa.. Dave