From: Marti Raudsepp Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:19:33 +0000 (+0200) Subject: [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: On load failure, remind the user to enable support in BIOS... X-Git-Tag: v2.6.36-rc1~578^2~13 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=298decfbc44e9a4cb7862ae1b7dfc4e1ba3551b9;p=pandora-kernel.git [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: On load failure, remind the user to enable support in BIOS setup On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 16:56 +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote: > But most often this happens if people upgrade their CPU and do not > update their BIOS. > Or the vendor does not recognise the new CPU even if the BIOS got > updated. Maybe some of those people just didn't realize it was disabled in BIOS? If you tell users that it's a firmware bug then they'll probably just give up. > The itself message might be an enhancment, IMO it's not worth a patch. Why do you think so? I spent an hour on hunting down the BIOS upgrade, only to find that it didn't improve anything. It was a day later that I realized that it might be a BIOS option; and the option was literally the _last_ option in the whole BIOS setup. :) This message would have saved the day. > But do not revert the FW_BUG part! Sure, you have a point here. How about this patch? --- Reading git-diff-tree failed