From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060313 Fedora/1.5.0.1-9 Firefox/1.5.0.1 Description of problem: PowerNow-K8 is a built-in for x86_64 but is a module for i386. It should be a built-in for consistency (between arches and with RHEL5) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot system 2. see that powernow is a module not built-in 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional info:
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QE ack for RHEL4.5.
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We have a customer complaing about the fact that the driver is built-in on x86_64. They want to replace it with an external module, and can't do so because it is built-in. Can we go the other way, and instead of building it in for x86_64, make it a module on i386?
The current plan is to make this a module for i386. Additional init script logic will be needed to make this work out-of-the-box. The initial reason for this BZ being filed was so things worked out-of-the-box. The current plan accomplishes both.