Source: msr-tools Section: admin Priority: optional Maintainer: Andres Salomon Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) Standards-Version: 4.6.0.1 Homepage: https://github.com/01org/msr-tools Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: msr-tools Architecture: i386 amd64 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Description: Utilities for modifying MSRs from userspace MSRs are Machine Specific Registers that are used to set values for hardware to use, or to pass values between the BIOS and kernel. This package provides utilities to both read and write MSRs. Reading and writing MSRs might be useful when debugging kernel drivers, for example.