Re: [BUG 2.6.30_rc1] powernow-k8: oops during initialization

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:51:50AM +0300, Ozan ÃaÄlayan wrote:
> Borislav Petkov wrote On 22-04-2009 10:38:
> > BIOS is missing the _PSS objects on which powernow-k8 relies. I'm pretty
> > sure you had similar message in earlier kernels but it was a simple
> > warning then.
> >
> > Is it possible to upgrade your BIOS? If you're lucky, it might've been
> > fixed :).
> >   
> > Just read what the message says: it is not a kernel bug but simply your
> 
> Yes I'm aware about the firmware bug but the backtrace shouldn't appear
> on the kernel log buffer,

Why not?

For the reasoning behind why you get a backtrace instead of simple
warning see

79cc56af9fdbeaa91f50289b932d0959b41f9467
a0ad05c75aa362c91f4d9cd91ff375a739574dd8

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.
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