On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 03:01:33PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> Normally, if the necessary BIOS bits aren't there, then acpi-cpufreq will
> fail to register. For some reason it sounds like it believes that everything
> went ok. I wonder if something changed in acpi recently that caused this
> change in behaviour ? Len ?
As far as I can see, acpi_cpufreq does not pass on any errors it sees during
init:
static int __init acpi_cpufreq_init (void)
{
int result = 0;
dprintk("acpi_cpufreq_init\n");
result = acpi_cpufreq_early_init_acpi();
...
And from acpi_cpufreq_early_init_acpi():
static int acpi_cpufreq_early_init_acpi(void)
{
struct acpi_processor_performance *data;
unsigned int i, j;
dprintk("acpi_cpufreq_early_init\n");
( some memory allocations, does not look at acpi or bios )
/* Do initialization in ACPI core */
acpi_processor_preregister_performance(acpi_perf_data);
return 0;
}
Note how any error from acpi_processor_preregister_performance is ignored.
Ghetto patch which "fixes" the problem for me:
--- ./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c~orig 2006-07-30 21:14:43.000000000 +0200
+++ ./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c 2006-07-30 21:11:34.000000000 +0200
@@ -384,8 +384,7 @@
}
/* Do initialization in ACPI core */
- acpi_processor_preregister_performance(acpi_perf_data);
- return 0;
+ return acpi_processor_preregister_performance(acpi_perf_data);
}
But tonight I have no speedstep laptop available to check if this does not
kill acpi_cpufreq when it can work.
Thanks for the hint, dave!
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