Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:24:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:24:11 -0500 Received: from brick.homesquared.com ([216.177.65.65]:16791 "EHLO brick.homesquared.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:23:51 -0500 Message-ID: <3C5596E1.1030905@coplanar.net> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:22:25 -0800 From: Jeremy Jackson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Nofftz CC: Ed Sweetman , Linux Kernel Mailing List , preining@logic.at, ttonino@users.sourceforge.net, moffe@amagerkollegiet.dk, timothy.covell@ashavan.org, Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de, nitrax@giron.wox.org, mpet@bigfoot.de, lkml@sigkill.net, pavel@suse.cz, vandrove@vc.cvut.cz, hpj@urpla.net, whitney@math.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: acpi-rouble/amd disconnect patch In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > > > ># Daniel Nofftz ># Sysadmin CIP-Pool Informatik ># University of Trier(Germany), Room V 103 ># Mail: daniel@nofftz.de > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/