On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Gregg C Levine wrote: > Before I demolish my Linux system, one question remains. Quoting you, " > You'll need the /dev/cpu/0/msr nodes setup & driver loaded obviously". I > understand what it means to set those /dev/cpu/0/msr nodes means, I've > done that for a different driver to enable the updating of the processor > microcode. But do you mean for setting things like that? I'd imagine > that the kernel configuration notes have that listed as well, which is > where I first saw them mentioned. Just a thought, and my two cents.
The microcode driver uses a different interface. (/dev/cpu/microcode) the msr nodes are there to allow r/w of machine specific registers. regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs
