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Date:      Sun, 15 Aug 2004 19:13:39 -0700
From:      Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
To:        "Sebastian Yepes F. [ESN]" <esn@x123.info>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Looking for *90nm* Pentium M owners...
Message-ID:  <6.1.0.6.1.20040815190920.03db7570@popserver.sfu.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20040816025929.hidrq4gwcc0g0csk@www.x123.info>
References:  <6.1.0.6.1.20040815104745.02a409c0@popserver.sfu.ca> <20040816025929.hidrq4gwcc0g0csk@www.x123.info>

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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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