On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Denis Machard wrote:
On vmware i have i386 kernel and with HP server a x86_64 kernel
i'm running on vmware system and HP proliant DL360 G5 servers
on wmware, on boot i have the following message:
Applying Intel Microcode update: don't know to make device "cpu/microcode" [OK]
and on a HP proliant DL360 G5 server , on boot i have too the following message:
Applying Intel Microcode update: don't know to make device "cpu/microcode" etc/rc3.d/S00microcode_ctl: microcode device /dev/cpu/microcode doesn't exist? [OK]
Do you have i686 kernel running (rather than i586) ? I had such message on Fedora Core 6 which installed i586 kernel on my PIII CPU.
Wojtek
So i386 kernel does not create /dev/cpu/microcode as far as I know. I do not know about x86_64 kernel, but file /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.9/Documentation/Changes describes /dev/cpu/microcode under title 'Intel IA32 microcode'. Also, it says that if udev is not used, you might need to make mkdir, mknod and chmod for the device.
Wojtek