Re: unexpected kernel messages for Sun Fire X4100 (NUMA Opteron 64bit) with SLES10

From: Tomasz Torcz
Date: Wed Aug 23 2006 - 10:33:18 EST


On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 03:56:47PM +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> I'm currently evaluating Novell/SUSE Enterprise Server 10 (SLES10) on a Sun Fire
> X4100.
> That machine basically features two Dual-Core AMD Opteron CPUs with 8GB RAM each.
> I'm running the latest SLES10 kernel (2.6.16.21-0.15-smp #1 SMP Tue Jul 25
> 15:28:49 UTC 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux) and the latest firmware for the
> hardware (Sun seems not to produce a lot of those however: The Service Processor
> still runs with "Linux version 2.4.22").

Are you sure you have latest BIOS installed? From
http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=44cfd445 :
BIOS 34 (0ABGA034). The improvements are:
(...)
* AMD PowerNow support

Also, you may try if acpi-cpufreq modules works for you.


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