On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Miguel Medalha miguelmedalha@sapo.pt wrote:
I get kernel panic at powernowk8_init+0x05e/0x1c3.
I don't have the necessary knowledge to evaluate kernel related issues, but it seems to me that there's some kind of confusion involved here. People are reporting problems with Intel Pentium II and III machines yet PowerNow is a speed throttling </wiki/CPU_throttling> and power saving technology used in AMD processors. Should powernowk8 be called when Intel processors are present?
In theory you are correct. The problems seems to be that upstream has decided to make that module part of the kernel itself and not as a seperate module. This means that it is always loaded and that is probably the reason why ther are issues on none-AMD hardware.
Regards, Tim