[CentOS-devel] kernel in testing

Wed Dec 20 11:47:29 UTC 2006
Phil Schaffner <P.R.Schaffner at IEEE.org>

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