[CentOS-devel] Re: kernel in testing

[Kay Diederichs]

Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 09:20 +0100, Christoph Maser wrote:
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>> i just wanted to say that the kernel in c4-testing (kernel
>> - -2.6.9-42.28.EL.c4test.i686) works without problems for me
> 
> Ditto, except I would like to flag the following error that came up at
> installation:
> 
> Running Transaction
>   Installing: kernel                       #########################
> [1/1]
> WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.28.EL.c4test/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.ko needs unknown symbol cpu_online_map
> 
> Installed: kernel.i686 0:2.6.9-42.28.EL.c4test
> 
> Doesn't seem to hurt anything on my old Athlon:
> $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
> cpu family      : 6
> model           : 4
> model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) processor
> stepping        : 2
> cpu MHz         : 1000.544
> cache size      : 256 KB
> fdiv_bug        : no
> hlt_bug         : no
> f00f_bug        : no
> coma_bug        : no
> fpu             : yes
> fpu_exception   : yes
> cpuid level     : 1
> wp              : yes
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov
> pat pse36 mmx fxsr pni syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
> bogomips        : 2001.52
> 
> Phil

I get the same message during installation. But this kernel solves 
problems with our new hardware (Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo notebook with SATA 
ICH7 Intel Dualcore), that with the 2.6.9.-42.0.3 kernel requires 
"acpi=off irqpoll" (and is still unstable with these options).

Thanks for providing it!

Kay