<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Turns out I'm not getting the MSR information... I installed the devcpu  package, but getting the MSR info is a little different in FreeBSD than linux. I can see /dev/cpu just fine, but there is no device for MSR (like /dev/cpu/msr...) The doc's for the helper tool x86info says that MSR drivers must be included in the kernel, or loaded as a kernel module. I did that with devcpu,  but I dont' see any MSR pseudo device. I think the only way to read and write the MSR data is to use IOCTL in FreeBSD.... In amd_msr.c, the calls to get the MSR data is  a nice easy  file open.  I think I"m gonna have to re-write the amd_msr.c for FreeBSD, or just add a new file and if_def the build. If I get MSR working in FreeBSD, what does that give us?  What register information is needed to be read and set?  A whole bunch of "stuff" ? :) Larry Jordan Crouse wrote: <blockquote cite="mid20071220190938.GA8453@cosmic.amd.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 20/12/07 11:02 -0800, Larry Maloney wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I found the following software in the ports collection for FreeBSD: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/sysutils/devcpu/pkg-descr">http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/sysutils/devcpu/pkg-descr</a> Will that give us the MSR's we need? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> That will - but it might be cumbersome for people to install. We need to figure out if there is a way to make BSD work out of the box. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I guess the GEODE doesn't' use an AMD64 instruction set...? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Nope - its all 32 bits. </pre> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- ============================== Larry P. Maloney CEO/CTO SoftNet Solutions Phone: 650-669-1942 Web: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.softnetsolution.com">www.softnetsolution.com</a></pre> </body> </html>