Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:04:35 +0100 (BST) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: Latest microcode data from Intel. |
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On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Alan Cox wrote: > > The microcode_ctl utility had a hardcoded default "/dev/cpu/microcode" and > > there is no real reason to change it because different distributions > > prefer a different value, so how to decide who is "right"? > > Documentation/devices.txt aka LANANA
Ok, in that case microcode_ctl is right about "/dev/cpu/microcode" and distributions need to change to match it. Indeed, it always seemed silly to me to "pretend" that the microcode device node is "per cpu" in some sense (as it is impossible under Linux to bind userspace app to a given cpu then there is no "good" sense in which "per cpu" node can be defined).
Kind regards Tigran
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