Re: unexpected kernel messages for Sun Fire X4100 (NUMA Opteron 64bit) with SLES10

[Ulrich Windl]

On 23 Aug 2006 at 16:35, Tomasz Torcz wrote:

[...]
>   Are you sure you have latest BIOS installed? From
> http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=44cfd445 :
>  BIOS 34 (0ABGA034). The improvements are:
>     (...)
>     * AMD PowerNow support

So I've installed this BIOS, realizing that it has a few new settings. Revalidated 
BIOS settings, and comparing kernel messages:

There's a new message:
<6>ACPI: SLIT table looks invalid. Not used.

Most other problems are still there, but the PowerNow seems solved:
kernel: powernow-k8: Found 4 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.60.2)
kernel: powernow-k8:    0 : fid 0x12 (2600 MHz), vid 0x8 (1350 mV)
kernel: powernow-k8:    1 : fid 0x10 (2400 MHz), vid 0xa (1300 mV)
kernel: powernow-k8:    2 : fid 0xe (2200 MHz), vid 0xc (1250 mV)
kernel: powernow-k8:    3 : fid 0xc (2000 MHz), vid 0xe (1200 mV)
kernel: powernow-k8:    4 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0x10 (1150 mV)
kernel: powernow-k8:    5 : fid 0x2 (1000 MHz), vid 0x12 (1100 mV)
kernel: cpu_init done, current fid 0x12, vid 0x8
kernel: powernow-k8:    0 : fid 0x12 (2600 MHz), vid 0x8 (1350 mV)
kernel: powernow-k8:    1 : fid 0x10 (2400 MHz), vid 0xa (1300 mV)
kernel: powernow-k8:    2 : fid 0xe (2200 MHz), vid 0xc (1250 mV)
kernel: powernow-k8:    3 : fid 0xc (2000 MHz), vid 0xe (1200 mV)
kernel: powernow-k8:    4 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0x10 (1150 mV)
kernel: powernow-k8:    5 : fid 0x2 (1000 MHz), vid 0x12 (1100 mV)
kernel: cpu_init done, current fid 0x12, vid 0x8

(There is a remaining problem with the system load ("uptime") being too high (>1) 
even if the system is doing nothing. See Screenshot (8kB).

Regards,
Ulrich

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