On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Matthew M wrote:
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> On Saturday 27 April 2002 8:51 pm, RS wrote:
> > ok
> >
> > running redhat, I have no microcode_ctl. but still, the kernel tells me
> > 'IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.09 <tigran@veritas.com>' during boot.
> >
> > where can i find it? Do I need it?
>
> microcode_ctl is the userland utility which actually soed the uploading of
> microcode. You will need to get the appropriate package, and this will come
if he is running latest Red Hat beta then it is part of kernel-utils
package:
$ rpm -qif /sbin/microcode_ctl
Name : kernel-utils Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version : 2.4 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release : 7.4 Build Date: Tue 02 Apr 2002 18:22:09 BST
Install date: Thu 25 Apr 2002 10:32:35 BST Build Host: stripples.devel.redhat.com
Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM: kernel-utils-2.4-7.4.src.rpm
Size : 624523 License: GPL
Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
URL : http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/
Summary : Kernel and Hardware related utilities
Description :
kernel-utils contains several utilities that can be used to control
the kernel or your machines hardware. Included are
* dmidecode - gives information about the bios and motherboard revisisons
* microcode_ctl - updates the microcode on Intel cpu's
* smartctl - monitor the health of your disks
> with microcode.dat - then you should actually be able to update your
> microcode. The message in your kernel log is just the driver initialisation.
>
> *MatthewM*
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