CentOS - Mar 2005 - CentOS4 microcode

Point 1.  I get the digest version of the mailing list.  I find it
most useful to get directly any reply to my questions in addition
to the response send to the list.

This item is on BUZILLA and I applied the recommended work-around
provided there but I am still seeing this message:

/etc/init.d/microcode_ctl: microcode device /dev/cpu/microcode
doesn''t exist?

What is this process? Do I need it on a single CPU box? If as I
infer from the BUGZILLA report /dev/cpu/microcode is a (evidently
missing) symlink then where should it point to? What are the risks
caused by its absence?


# find / -name "*microcode*"
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-5.0.3.EL-smp-i686/include/config/microcode
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-5.0.3.EL-i686/include/config/microcode
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-5.0.3.EL-hugemem-i686/include/config/microcode
/usr/share/man/man8/microcode_ctl.8.gz
/sbin/microcode_ctl
/lib/modules/2.6.9-5.0.3.EL/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.ko
/etc/rc.d/rc4.d/K99microcode_ctl
/etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K99microcode_ctl
/etc/rc.d/rc2.d/K99microcode_ctl
/etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K99microcode_ctl
/etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K99microcode_ctl
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/K99microcode_ctl
/etc/rc.d/init.d/microcode_ctl
/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/K99microcode_ctl
/etc/firmware/microcode.dat
#

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I think you''ll need to force the microcode module to be loaded in
/etc/init.d/microcode_ctl a second or so before the binary microcode_ctl
is run (mirocode update is for Intel CPU''s - basically a software
hardware
patch).
> /etc/init.d/microcode_ctl: microcode device /dev/cpu/microcode
> doesn''t exist?