On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 20:30 -0600, rado wrote:
On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 19:05 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
...just wondering what that msg means...was hitting really regular then stopped...like it was hitting /var/log/messages bout every 3 secs
Bit of googling turned up a statement from the AMD kids that says the following We've started seeing this internally in AMD QA. The bit that the processor uses to indicate that it is in the process of changing frequencies (aka the pending change bit) is not clearing. The powernow-k8 driver cannot change frequencies until the previous change has completed.
Because this is happening on the hardware side, my best guess is that the problem is not software related. We've reported the problem to the AMD hardware debug team and they're investigating. I'll put out a patch when we have a solution.
-Mark Langsdorf AMD, Inc.
The other information I've seen says that it's likely related to processor speed stepping and not recovering properly etc.
kk I got this powernow-k8 to repeat.
I run off a kvm switch. if I say, leave kwrite /var/log/messages @ full screen...no matter if I switch computers...that msg will not log.
if I x out the messages log...leave that computer ...only a small window of the console is open...then I come back and bring up the log file...the powernow msgs are back...
this is all for what it's worth
I have noticed this same message in my console at startup and in my logs on my ASUS K8V-X ... I have been ignoring it for a year :)