Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ? (with sort of workaround)

Pete French petefrench at ingresso.co.uk
Thu Jul 5 10:43:31 UTC 2018


> It does not make any sense to even try to access the chicken bits
> MSRs when running under virtualization.  It is the duty of the
> hypervisor to configure hardware. 

I would tend to agree with you :-) I was kind of surprised to read that they
are actually saved and restored as part of a VM context switch in fact.

> I updated the patch.

Thanks I shall try this now on my workstation and the Epyc virtual machine

-pete.


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