Help debug latest rawhide images
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Mon Feb 16 16:40:30 UTC 2009
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
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