linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/cpufreq: Warn user when powernow-k8 tries to fall back to acpi-cpufreq and it is unavailable.

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Date:	Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:58:06 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Cc:	"Gopalakrishnan, Aravind" <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@....com>,
	"rjw@...k.pl" <rjw@...k.pl>, Andre Przywara <andre@...rep.de>,
	"cpufreq@...r.kernel.org" <cpufreq@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andreas <linuxuser330250@....net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/cpufreq: Warn user when powernow-k8 tries to
 fall back to acpi-cpufreq and it is unavailable.

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 07:38:34PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 08:36:56PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 
> > Ok, how much can we rely on ACPI to have this ACPI_ADR_SPACE_SYSTEM_IO
> > properly set on K8? Because the thing is, we want to use acpi-cpufreq on
> > F10h onwards and leave powernow-k8 to K8s.
> 
> SYSTEM_IO only supports single processors and was superceded in ACPI 
> 2.0. Are there any single-core F10h?

Hmm, maybe some downcored creations, who knows? But actually, that
doesn't matter: we want to exit early from acpi-cpufreq loading on K8
only so the check should simply be:

	if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_AMD &&
	    boot_cpu_data.x86 == 0xf) {
		pr_debug(...)
		...
	}

Yeah, I think that should work. I'll add your patch to the others and
make a patchset to give it a run. If it looks good, we'll queue it for
3.9 so that it can see more testing.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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