Looking for *90nm* Pentium M owners...

Colin Percival colin.percival at wadham.ox.ac.uk
Sun Aug 15 19:23:00 PDT 2004


At 17:59 15/08/2004, Sebastian Yepes F. [ESN] wrote:
>CPU: Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.40GHz (2392.95-MHz 686-class CPU)
>
>When i load the mod (dumpmsr.ko) it just panic the system, it's a current of
>today.
>know what can be the problem?

The problem is Intel's confusing names.  A "Pentium(R) 4 - M" is not the same
as a "Pentium(R) M", and it doesn't have the MSR which the module was trying
to read.  (Similarly, the "Pentium(R) 4 - M" supports both "SpeedStep" and
"SpeedStep 2", but not "Enhanced SpeedStep".)

Colin Percival




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