linux-kernel - Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode

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Date:	Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:41:27 -0500
From:	lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To:	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, 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 Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 04:11:22PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Strange how it says that for every value I have tried so far.  Makes me
> wonder if there is a register somewhere that disables MSR support.
> I did find a lockout value but I can't read that one either (which says
> it is always readable).

I tried doing rdmsr on 0x1810 from grub, and it faults too.  cpuid says
MSRs are supported, I just can't find any that work.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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