Re: 2.6.18 regression: cpufreq broken since 2.6.18-rc1 on pentium4

From: Tomasz Torcz
Date: Mon Jul 31 2006 - 11:20:39 EST


On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 07:04:07AM -0700, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 10:45:13AM -0700, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> >
> > > CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ
> >
> > I had this one =y. After setting =n, cpufreq-nforce2 (=m) works again.
> >
> > powernowd: PowerNow Daemon v0.96, (c) 2003-2005 John Clemens
> > powernowd: Found 1 cpu: -- 1 thread (or core) per physical cpu
> > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies: No
> > such file or directory
> > powernowd: cpu0: 1228Mhz - 1753Mhz (7 steps)
>
> Hi Tomasz,
>
> Could you also please test Bert's patch which propogates error
> return values with your previous configuration?

Bert's patch works. With CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ=y and
cpufre-nforce2=m I have working cpufreq (like in 2.6.17 and before).

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