Re: Microcode update driver

[Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>]

Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:
> 
> arjan@fenrus.demon.nl wrote:
> 
> > In article <m171Yag-000Ga6C@Wasteland> you wrote:
> >
> >>On Saturday 27 April 2002 7:57 pm, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> >>
> >>>Sorry if this is a FAQ, but where's the microcode.dat supposed to be
> >>>placed? I can't find any information about that in the doc.
> >>>
> >>/usr/share/misc/microcode.dat
> >>
> >
> > hum doesn't the FHS specify that /usr/share shouldn't contain arch
> > specific files ? microcode.dat I can't really call arch neutral....
> 
> Right! But is not a configuration file (in /etc/, like the original sources
> and RH). So it should be in /usr/lib (or in /usr/include, it is really a C/C++
> file, but now we don't use it as a C file).

It's an ascii file for "configuring" the cpu. So I put it in /etc, some
sound firmware
is there anyway (not shipped by RHL but some vendors put it there)

 
> PS: Do you maintain the RH kernel-utils ?

yes

 
> [1] until I find a good new location in FHS

Once I hear a good FHS location I'll change it over to it as well,
/etc/firmware sounded as good as any to me ;(