linux/arch/x86
Marti Raudsepp 298decfbc4 [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?
2010-08-03 13:47:04 -04:00
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boot x86, setup: Set ax register in boot vga query 2010-06-10 15:24:29 -07:00
configs
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2010-05-03 11:28:58 +08:00
ia32 x86: correctly wire up the newuname system call 2010-04-20 09:17:21 -07:00
include/asm x86: Add i8042 pre-detection hook to x86_platform_ops 2010-07-07 17:05:06 -07:00
kernel [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: On load failure, remind the user to enable support in BIOS setup 2010-08-03 13:47:04 -04:00
kvm mm: add context argument to shrinker callback 2010-07-19 14:56:17 +10:00
lguest Merge branch 'ht-delete-2.6.35' into release 2010-05-28 16:20:35 -04:00
lib Merge branch 'x86-atomic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-05-18 08:40:05 -07:00
math-emu x86, fpu: Unbreak FPU emulation 2010-05-10 13:37:16 -07:00
mm rbtree: Undo augmented trees performance damage and regression 2010-07-05 14:43:50 +02:00
oprofile Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-05-18 08:19:03 -07:00
pci Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-07-19 13:19:32 -07:00
power PM / x86: Save/restore MISC_ENABLE register 2010-06-08 00:32:49 +02:00
tools x86: Remove trailing spaces in messages 2010-02-07 17:47:51 +01:00
vdso include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
video
xen xen: ensure timer tick is resumed even on CPU driving the resume 2010-06-03 09:34:04 +01:00
.gitignore add random binaries to .gitignore 2010-04-08 11:34:34 +02:00
Kbuild
Kconfig numa: x86_64: use generic percpu var numa_node_id() implementation 2010-05-27 09:12:57 -07:00
Kconfig.cpu Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-05-18 08:58:16 -07:00
Kconfig.debug Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-05-18 08:40:21 -07:00
Makefile x86: Use .cfi_sections for assembly code 2010-05-13 22:15:18 -07:00
Makefile_32.cpu