Package: linux-image-amd64 Version: 5.8.7-1 Severity: important Dear colleagues,
I am running a VirtualBox VM with debian sid for package testing purposes and I encountered the absence of cpufreq driver entries under /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ and /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/. On 'broken' Debian sid: $ ls -la /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 0 Sep 13 11:31 . drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Sep 13 11:31 .. drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 0 Sep 13 13:51 cache -r-------- 1 root root 4096 Sep 13 13:52 crash_notes -r-------- 1 root root 4096 Sep 13 13:52 crash_notes_size lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 13 13:52 driver -> ../../../../bus/cpu/drivers/processor lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 13 13:52 firmware_node -> ../../../LNXSYSTM:00/LNXCPU:00 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Sep 13 13:51 hotplug lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 13 13:52 node0 -> ../../node/node0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Sep 13 13:51 power lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 13 13:52 subsystem -> ../../../../bus/cpu drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Sep 13 13:51 topology -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep 13 13:52 uevent $ ls -la /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Sep 13 13:51 . drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Sep 13 11:31 .. On 'working' Ubuntu 18.04.5: $ ls -la /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0 загалом 0 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 0 вер 13 13:54 . drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 0 вер 11 06:58 .. drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 0 вер 11 06:59 cache lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 вер 11 06:59 cpufreq -> ../cpufreq/policy0 -r-------- 1 root root 4096 вер 13 13:54 crash_notes -r-------- 1 root root 4096 вер 13 13:54 crash_notes_size lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 вер 13 13:54 driver -> ../../../../bus/cpu/drivers/processor lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 вер 13 13:54 firmware_node -> ../../../LNXSYSTM:00/LNXCPU:00 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 вер 13 13:54 hotplug drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 вер 13 13:54 microcode lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 вер 13 13:54 node0 -> ../../node/node0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 вер 13 13:54 power lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 вер 13 13:54 subsystem -> ../../../../bus/cpu drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 вер 12 08:38 topology -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 вер 13 13:54 uevent $ ls -la /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ загалом 0 drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0 вер 13 13:54 . drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 0 вер 13 13:54 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 вер 13 13:54 boost drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 вер 13 13:54 ondemand drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 вер 11 06:59 policy0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 вер 11 06:59 policy1 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 вер 11 06:59 policy2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 вер 11 06:59 policy3 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 вер 11 06:59 policy4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 вер 11 06:59 policy5 The 5.7.17 kernel from buster-backports has also cpufreq entries in place. Sincerely, Vasyl -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux debian-sid 5.8.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.8.7-1 (2020-09-05) x86_64 GNU/Linux Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: unable to detect Versions of packages linux-image-amd64 depends on: pn linux-image-5.7.0-3-amd64 <none> linux-image-amd64 recommends no packages. linux-image-amd64 suggests no packages.
