Fedora Core 5 Test Update: kernel-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5

[David Nielsen]

man, 11 09 2006 kl. 19:27 -0500, skrev Jay Cliburn:
> David Nielsen wrote:
> > man, 11 09 2006 kl. 19:45 -0400, skrev Dave Jones:
> >> On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 06:15:28PM -0500, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> >>  > Dave Jones wrote:
> >>  > 
> >>  > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>  > >> Fedora Test Update Notification
> >>  > >> FEDORA-2006-967
> >>  > >> 2006-09-11
> >>  > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>  > >> 
> >>  > >> Product     : Fedora Core 5
> >>  > >> Name        : kernel
> >>  > >> Version     : 2.6.17
> >>  > >> Release     : 1.2187_FC5
> >>  > 
> >>  > Worksforme. Nicely done. I take it 2.6.18 is not going to be released for 
> >>  > a while?
> >>
> >> I'm hoping to get a 2.6.18rc6 based kernel into updates-testing soon
> >> (and then rebase to .18 for updates-final when that gets released), but
> >> as usual, xen is throwing a spanner in the works.
> > 
> > if you do that I believe we would be likely to hit this one:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205305
> > 
> > which is currently breaking cpu scaling for me on Development
> 
> Hmmm...  I have an AMD64x2 3800+ that scales up to 2 GHz just fine under the 
> current rawhide kernel.

Very odd, I and a few others are seeing this, maybe something is loading
wrong modules on certain machines. I had to manually recompile the
kernel to make it stop locking it at the lowest setting (although I
managed to kill scaling as well but I'll take broken scaling at 2.2GHz
over broken scaling at 1GHz)

- David