microcode for amd phenoms

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 26 June 2012 16:03:22 Ric Moore did opine:

> On 06/26/2012 03:45 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Greetings folks;
> > 
> > I have the code itself on site and available, but the
> > init.d/microcode_ctl furnished with 10.04 LTS is for intel only. 
> > Where can the installer be found to replace that, for AMD multicore
> > cpu's?
> 
> I would think that the 64bit install would be the vanilla AMD version.
> Maybe you have the 32bit version?? I've done that myself from having too
> many install CD's lying around. :) Ric

I had centos6.2 64 bit in for a couple days, but very little worked without 
pie-ratting 32 bit libraries into the /usr/lib tree, even if there was an 
identical 64 bitter in /usr/lib64.

Far too much of the stuff I'd like to run only comes in 32 bit, and I 
wasn't able to figure out how to get yumex (I'd also forgotten how big a 
POC that was) to show me the 32 bit stuff.  So it was a 500% scrooem 
situation, at my age I don't have time for centos to grow some 64 bit 
cajons, so yesterday morning I rebooted to a 32 bit ubuntu-10.04+linuxcnc 
install, the same as at least 2 of my other machines is running here, maybe 
3 as I think that is the version installed on my lappy too.

So yes, its a 32 bit install, 64 bit simply is not yet ready for Aunt 
Tillies desktop (or mine by inference), and at the rate, and attitudes 
prevailing on the centos list, I doubt if it will ever be.  I asked 2 times 
about the opencascade kit, which the majority of decent cad/cam for linux 
software uses for rendering, and was ignored both times.  The ubuntu repos 
have it properly sorted, 3 clicks to install the lot.  Whats not to like?

Anyway, that doesn't make the amd microcode load.

Cheers, Gene
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