linux-kernel - RE: WARNING: at drivers/base/sys.c:183 sysdev_driver

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Date:	Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:51:21 -0500
From:	"Langsdorf, Mark" <mark.langsdorf@....com>
To:	"Jiri Kosina" <jkosina@...e.cz>, <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>,
	<lenb@...nel.org>
Cc:	<linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>, "Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <cpufreq@...ts.linux.org.uk>
Subject: RE: WARNING: at drivers/base/sys.c:183 sysdev_driver_register+0x75/0x12e()

> From: cpufreq-bounces@...ts.linux.org.uk 
> [mailto:cpufreq-bounces@...ts.linux.org.uk] On Behalf Of Jiri Kosina
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 9:12 AM
> To: davej@...emonkey.org.uk; lenb@...nel.org
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am getting the acpi-cpufreq-drivercore warning below when booting 
> current git (807501475)
> 
> powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ 
> processors (1 cpu 
> cores) (version 2.20.00)
> powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB or ACPI _PSS objects
> sysdev: class cpu: driver (ffffffff8057fd10) has already been 
> registered to a class, something is wrong, but will forge on!
> 
Why is the acpi-cpufreq driver trying to
instantiate on an AMD processor?  It shouldn't
do that.

PowerNow! failed to load because the BIOS wasn't 
set up correctly.  But the acpi-cpufreq driver
shouldn't have loaded at all.

-Mark Langsdorf
Operating System Research Center
AMD

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