Re: MSR support for x86

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
27 Feb 1997 23:51:42 GMT


Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970227232700.247A-100000@localhost>
By author: Stephan Meyer <sensei@wiesel.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Access to the registers is made available through the character device
> /dev/msr major 10 / minor 8. (Could the responsible person please make
> this assignment official?).
>

No; minor 8 is already assigned, and besides, the range 0-127 are for
mice. You have been assigned minor number 142 for this device.

-hpa

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