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model-specific registers and has committed to their inclusion in future product lines.

On modern x86-based systems, the BIOS or UEFI firmware will initialize CPUID registers and model-specific registers on each system startup.

On AArch64 architecture, the same concept exists, called System Registers.

Using MSRs

Reading and writing to these registers is handled by the rdmsr and

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