RHEA-2007:0609 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An updated cpuspeed package that adds an enhancement and fixes a bug is now
available.

Description

The cpuspeed package provides processor frequency scaling support.

• Upcoming Itanium-based systems support demand-based processor frequency

scaling. This updated package enables processor frequency scaling by
default on supported Itanium systems.

• Certain conditions could result in the cpuspeed init script's status

command not returning any data. This updated package takes these conditions
into account and handles them correctly.

All users should upgrade to this updated package, which features the above
enhancement and bug fix.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 237940 - cpuspeed init script uses some incorrect exit codes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)