On Monday, February 16 2009, Jeremy Katz said:
On Sunday, February 15 2009, Chris Ball said:
> * I eventually worked out that "modprobe msr" is needed before starting
> the driver on Rawhide -- if you don't, you get a screen full of white
> snow. We'll need to get this logic ("if on an xo, do modprobe msr
> before X starts") into Fedora proper somehow. Any ideas?
Usually the approach is to have appropriate modaliases. But msr should
really load/work for basically all x86 hardware. And we build the
module in on x86_64, so maybe the right thing is just to build it in for
x86 as well. I'll ask for reasons not to
No one had a great reason, so next rawhide kernel will have msr built-in
instead of modular
Jeremy