Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/sysutils/intel-microcode-netbsd

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

On Sat, 25 Nov 2017 10:06:19 +0000 (UTC), John Klos wrote:
> Where is it getting "pkg" from?

Majic.

%  pwd
/u1/netbsd-developer/src/usr.sbin/cpuctl
% fgrep -R pkg *
%

> The rc.d script iterates "cpuctl ucode 0" through "cpu ucode 
> hw.ncpu-1" but the man page says that the option after "ucode" is the 
> filename. 

Yes. and the rc.d script doesn't provide any filename to cpuctl, at all.

> Even so, it fails on hyperthreaded CPUs and apparently is 
> only needed on one core per CPU package.

The cpuctl(8) man page talks about AMD firmware exclusively, but there 
is no firmware for AMD cpus, neither in base nor pkgsrc... plus, 
www.amd64.org has gone AWOL.

Sounds like bit rot. 

hauke

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