linux-kernel - Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode

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Message-ID: <4B02DE4E.4070504@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:33:02 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>
CC:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Matteo Croce <technoboy85@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode

On 11/17/2009 09:25 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:48:47AM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
>> Umm...  'modprobe msr'?
>>
>> (Recently I had what *looked* like an xorg server bug, turned out to be a
>> missing CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV.. Whoops. ;)
> 
> I did.  Makes no difference.  If I unload it I get the same error.
> 
> # modinfo msr
> filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-gx1/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/msr.ko
> author:         H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
> description:    x86 generic MSR driver
> license:        GPL
> vermagic:       2.6.26-2-gx1 mod_unload GEODEGX1
> depends:
> 
> # lsmod |grep msr
> msr                     2692  0
> 
> I don't get it.
> 

Does /dev/cpu/*/msr exist?

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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