powernow-k7 and smp enabled kernels

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Mon Jul 11 02:57:30 UTC 2005


On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 09:35:23PM -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
 > I recently tried several kernels which had smp support that were stock 
 > from Fedora. The kernels did not work for managing my power features. 
 > Therefore, I decided to see if downloading the source, making a config 
 > file that supported my hardware.
 > My main question is if anyone has tried an smp kernel on a laptop for an 
 > AMD processor with any success? Also, does the centrino for Intel 
 > processors work whn smp is enabled in the kernel?
 > Thanks,
 > Jim

The K7 powernow driver doesn't support SMP, as no SMP capable K7's had powernow.
The speedstep-centrino driver does support SMP, but I've never seen
any reports of whether it works ok or not.

		Dave




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