ACPI: cpufreq, processor: Detect old BIOS, not supporting CPU freq on a recent CPU.
authorThomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:27:04 +0000 (14:27 +0200)
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:48:07 +0000 (18:48 -0400)
commit910dfae298f7b3dae0e9a52736182a3b0559ca35
tree6fd4823b6e75afb2861004f464e0842370f983ef
parenta0ad05c75aa362c91f4d9cd91ff375a739574dd8
ACPI: cpufreq, processor: Detect old BIOS, not supporting CPU freq on a recent CPU.

On Intel CPUs it is rather common and a good hint that BIOSes which do provide
_PPC func, but not the frequencies itself in _PSS function, are old and need
to be updated for CPU freq support.

Tell the user/vendor he has a BIOS/firmware problem.
Make use of FW_BUG interface to give vendors and users the ability to
automatically check with (or let linuxfirmwarekit do that):
dmesg |grep "Firmware Bug"

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c