2.5.72-bk[12] oops on boot (cpufreq/ACPI)

Latitude C640 laptop, RedHat 8.0 base installation, [email protected].

SysRq still functional. From the console:

cpufreq: P0: 1Mhz, 0mW, 0uS
cpufreq: P1: 0Mhz, 0mW, 0uS
divide error: 0000 [#1]

[snip]

EFLAGS: 00010246
EIP is at cpufreq_notify_transition+0x25/0x170

[snip]

Call trace from the oopsed screen:

delay_tsc + 0xf/0x16
acpi_processor_set_performance + 0x1e5/0x3ae
acpi_cpufreq_init + 0x23e/0x29a
do_initcalls + 0x27/0x94
init_workqueues + 0xf/0x28
init + 0x31/0x190
init + 0x0/0x190
kernel_thread_helper + 0x5/0xc

gzipped .config attached.

--alessandro

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and connection with the most naked human emotions.
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