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authorDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>2009-01-21 12:22:25 -0500
committerDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>2009-01-21 12:22:25 -0500
commitde50e1d2533cd3480979137fbd750006522dd379 (patch)
treeccd46712954296774579e71bbc04f369c5a04dd5 /README
parent11ba6d45391d5367cbb6e3b41b7ffc2c02c93791 (diff)
Check for a minimum version of glibc, as the affinity calls
didn't have a stable ABI until 2.3.4 This is preferable to hacking around it with libs like plpa (see https://www.pooryorick.com/secure/wiki/Pub/X86info for a diff)
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@@ -18,8 +18,9 @@ Features:
- Parsing of model specific registers.
- Approximation of current CPU MHz.
+Requirements:
+* On Linux, at least version 2.4 of glibc is required.
-Caveats:
* For usage of the MSR / SMP functions, x86info needs the
x86 cpuid driver provided with the Linux kernel since 2.2.18 / 2.4.0,
and the appropriate nodes in /dev