From 2c0062bde59d82c0f47dbeb917b89dc047764bfc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Geri <42678694+GeriGeriGeriGeri@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 8 May 2021 11:20:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update amdctl.c

Linux 5.9 and 5.10 started to remove msr support.
Maybe a fopen / fgets / strstr at "Write to unrecognized MSR" would be required on /var/log/kern.log, to detect if the operation was succesfull, or the kernel blocked the call alltogether.
---
 amdctl.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/amdctl.c b/amdctl.c
index 4588db4..e7b551a 100644
--- a/amdctl.c
+++ b/amdctl.c
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@
  * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  */
+
+#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wwrite-strings"
+
 #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <fcntl.h>
@@ -23,6 +26,11 @@
 #include <string.h>
 #include <math.h>
 
+#include <linux/version.h>
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(5,9,0)
+	#warning Incompatible kernel! MSR access deprecated by your Linux kernel! To use this program, you must set GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="msr.allow_writes=on" kernel parameter in the file /etc/default/grub and run upgrade-grub. 
+#endif
+
 void printBaseFmt(const int);
 int getDec(const char *);
 void getReg(const uint32_t);