[flashrom] [PATCH] fix MSR code in flashrom

[Stefan Reinauer]

On 8/11/09 3:43 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 11.08.2009 15:00, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
>   
>> See patch... With this flashrom won't try to open /dev/cpu/x/msr on
>> non-linux OSes...
>>
>> Fix up MSR handling in flashrom to support more OSes than Linux. 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>
>>   
>>     
> I'm not totally happy with the abstraction and think getting MSR access
> should be part of getting IO permissions, but this is a good step forward.
>   

I considered that. BUT: Why make code run every time, if it's only
needed on 1% or less of the machines.


Stefan

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