Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Microcode-ctl Problems
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:20:21
Message-Id: hg0mr8$ea9$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Microcode-ctl Problems by Frank Peters
1 On 12/12/2009 06:08 PM, Frank Peters wrote:
2 >[...]
3 > Incidentally, the Gentoo boot script for microcode_ctl is not correct.
4 > It uses a "-d" option to specify the microcode device:
5 >
6 > microcode_ctl -d /dev/cpu/microcode
7 >
8 > But the "-d" option does not exist. The device is specified at
9 > compile time.
10
11 It does exist. It's just not documented. If you run "microcode_ctl -d"
12 you get "option requires an argument -- 'd'".