On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 08:53:13PM +0100, Duane Griffin wrote:
> On 16/05/07, Prakash Punnoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Maybe you want to give a hint in the p states driver help text?
>
> I think a hint is the right thing to do, but in the PowerNow! driver
> rather than the p states one. How about adding something like this to
> the X86_POWERNOW_K8 (and X86_POWERNOW_K7?) help text:
The mobile K7s which had powernow support weren't SMP capable, so they're
irrelevant.
> "ACPI support is required for non-UP systems and requires ACPI_PROCESSOR
> to be selected. If ACPI_PROCESSOR is compiled as a module then this
> option must be too in order for ACPI support to be available."
X86_POWERNOW_K8_ACPI is already 'default y'. I think the problem lies in
that people aren't enabling its dependancy, ACPI_PROCESSOR.
We want something along the lines of..
config X86_POWERNOW_K8_ACPI
bool
if SMP & X86_POWERNOW_K8_ACPI
select ACPI_PROCESSOR
kconfig language quirks aside..
Dave
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