Side effect of building CPU scaling into kernel

Leann Ogasawara leann.ogasawara at canonical.com
Tue Feb 24 20:47:07 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 14:26 -0600, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> Hi guys:
> 
> As a side effect of the building CPU frequency scaling into the
> kernel, I'm noticing an extra message getting printed on boot that
> probably doesn't need to be there.  I seem to remember at some point
> there was an effort to not show any unnecessary messages between GRUB
> and usplash, so I think this qualifies as one:
> 
> [    1.446954] cpufreq: No nForce2 chipset.

Hi Mario,

Here's the bug reported for this:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/332170

Based on the comments in the bug it looks like a patch is going into
2.6.30 upstream and should be easily backported.

Thanks,
Leann






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