Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Dec 2001 17:38:15 -0800 (PST) | From | Chris Rankin <> | Subject | Re: Linux IA32 microcode driver |
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The msr driver doesn't support devfs at all, and nor does cpuid come to that. However, microcode creates a miscellaneous character device, number (10,184), in the /dev/misc directory. This is why the regular /dev/cpu/microcode file is so mysterious...
Chris
--- Ben Clifford <benc@hawaga.org.uk> wrote: > On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Chris Rankin wrote: > > > Am I missing something rather obvious, or is the > /dev/cpu/microcode > > device being mis-created under devfs with Linux > 2.4.x? I have enclosed > > a patch to ensure that the character device really > *is* a character > > device. > > On my system, running 2.4.16, I get no devfs entry > for that or msr at all. > I just get the mtrr entry. > > This is with microcode and msr loaded as modules. > > -- > Ben Clifford benc@hawaga.org.uk > http://www.hawaga.org.uk/ben/ GPG: 30F06950 > webcam: > http://barbarella.hawaga.org.uk/~benc/webcam/live.html >
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