On Thursday 23 July 2009 04:11:10 Zhang Rui wrote: > when acpi=off, powernow-k8 driver is still loaded, and fails with > a firmware bug warning message. > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13695#c5 > > this is misleading, > we should not load powernow-k8 driver when acpi=off. > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13695 Maybe this one is better: - It allows these special, deprecated PSB BIOS structure use in acpi=off case - It complains that powernow-k8 won't work without ACPI, instead of complaining about the BIOS missing _PSS ACPI structures (in acpi=off case). Compile tested on latest 2.6.31-rc2. Thomas ---- CPUFREQ: Avoid powernow-k8 BIOS complains when acpi=off - It still allows these special, deprecated PSB BIOS structure use in acpi=off case - It complains that powernow-k8 won't work without ACPI, instead of complaining about the BIOS missing _PSS ACPI structures (in acpi=off case). Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: cpufreq_governor_cleanups/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c =================================================================== --- cpufreq_governor_cleanups.orig/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c +++ cpufreq_governor_cleanups/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c @@ -1286,7 +1286,11 @@ static int __cpuinit powernowk8_cpu_init * an UP version, and is deprecated by AMD. */ if (num_online_cpus() != 1) { - printk_once(ACPI_PSS_BIOS_BUG_MSG); + if (acpi_disabled) + printk_once(KERN_WARN PFX + "ACPI disabled, exiting\n"); + else + printk_once(ACPI_PSS_BIOS_BUG_MSG); goto err_out; } if (pol->cpu != 0) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
