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.\" rdmsr(1)
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.\" Copyright (C) 2008 Andres Salomon
.TH rdmsr 1 "Mar 2008"
.SH NAME
rdmsr \- tool for reading CPU machine specific registers (MSR)
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B "rdmsr [options] regno"
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B rdmsr 
is a tool used for reading a CPU's machine specific registers (MSR).
.br
Note: if you're running a Debian kernel, be sure that the msr.ko kernel
module is loaded. 'modprobe msr' should do the trick. Otherwise, you'll
get an error about
.B rdmsr
not being able to open files in /dev/cpu/...
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B --help,          -h
Print a list of available options
.TP
.B --version,       -V
Print current version
.TP
.B --hexadecimal,   -x
Display output in hexadecimal (lower case)
.TP
.B --capital-hex,   -X
Display output in hexadecimal (upper case)
.TP
.B --decimal,       -d
Display output in signed decimal
.TP
.B --unsigned,      -u
Display output in unsigned decimal
.TP
.B --octal,         -o
Display output in octal
.TP
.B --c-language,    -c
Format output as a C language constant
.TP
.B --zero-pad,      -0
Output leading zeroes
.TP
.B --zero-pad,      -0
Output leading zeroes
.TP
.B --raw,           -r
Output raw binary
.TP
.B --all,           -a
All processors
.TP
.B --processor <#>, -p
Select processor number (default: 0)
.TP
.B --bitfield h:l, -f
Output bits [h:l] only
.TP
.BR
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR wrmsr(1)
.SH AUTHOR
.br
.B rdmsr 
was written by Transmeta Corporation

This man page was contributed by Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).