Re: Kernel Oops with dual core athlon 64 (quick question)

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Jul 07 2005 - 15:44:53 EST


Hi,

On Thursday, 7 of July 2005 18:41, Jon Schindler wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
> I looked at the patch and noticed that it's changing a file inside
> linux-2.6.12-rc6/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
> So, basically, it's modifying the powernow driver in the i386 arch
> directory, but shouldn't that file be in "arch/x86_64/....", or am I missing
> something?

Yes. :-)

> I'm compiling the kernel for x86_64, so will my 64 bit kernel
> use this file even though it's in the i386 directory?

Yes, it will. x86-64 uses some sources from i386 directly, including
cpufreq (they would be identical anyway).

Greets,
Rafael


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