Re: [PATCH] powernow-k8: depend on acpi-processor for SMP systems

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 02:13:42PM -0400, Len Brown wrote:

 > > Index: linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig
 > > ===================================================================
 > > --- linux.orig/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig
 > > +++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig
 > > @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ config X86_POWERNOW_K7_ACPI
 > >  config X86_POWERNOW_K8
 > >  	tristate "AMD Opteron/Athlon64 PowerNow!"
 > >  	select CPU_FREQ_TABLE
 > > +	select ACPI_PROCESSOR if SMP
 > >  	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
 > >  	help
 > >  	  This adds the CPUFreq driver for mobile AMD Opteron/Athlon64 processors.
 > 
 > Unfortunately this patch will not actually enable ACPI_PROCESSOR in
 > the SMP=y ACPI=n case.  "select" doesn't work for targets that
 > have dependencies.

I don't think we can fix this perfectly tbh, but the above at
least gets us close for the majority of users.

Are there many x86-64 users that don't enable acpi ?

	Dave

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