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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