Daniel Nofftz wrote:
>On 25 Jan 2002, Ed Sweetman wrote:
>
>>It sounds like you'll have to make the patch work just for Athlon XP's
>>... unless of course you're not expecting it to be included in the
>>kernel ever.
>>
>
>hmmm ...
>i am not quite shure that this is only working with an xp processor ... at
>the moment i'm looking for some additional informations, how to tune the
>processor registers to implement the fix for the errata 11 bug. it must be
>possible from within the kernel to do this. you have to modify the
>CLK_CTRL MSR to a different value. i hope amd will send me the document
>#24478 where the right values are described ...
>has someone experiences how to modify msr ? i found 2 assambler commands
>("rdmsr/wtmsr") but i have no experiences with assamambler ...
>
If you configure the MSR support in when compiling the kernel, you get
/dev/cpu/0/msr
which you can use to read/write them.
I don't see that doc on their website, and others have failed to find it
as well. It's probably NDA, so ask your motherboard/BIOS MFR for an
update...
>
>
>daniel
>
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