On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Miguel Medalha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I get kernel panic at powernowk8_init+0x05e/0x1c3. > > I don't have the necessary knowledge to evaluate kernel related issues, but > it seems to me that there's some kind of confusion involved here. > People are reporting problems with Intel Pentium II and III machines yet > PowerNow is a speed throttling </wiki/CPU_throttling> and power saving > technology used in AMD processors. > Should powernowk8 be called when Intel processors are present? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerNow!
In theory you are correct. The problems seems to be that upstream has decided to make that module part of the kernel itself and not as a seperate module. This means that it is always loaded and that is probably the reason why ther are issues on none-AMD hardware. Regards, Tim -- Tim Verhoeven - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 0479 / 88 11 83 Hoping the problem magically goes away by ignoring it is the "microsoft approach to programming" and should never be allowed. (Linus Torvalds) _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
