Bug 575750 – sys-apps/microcode-ctl-1.28-r1 missing /etc/init.d/ service

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description romockee 2016-02-26 18:07:54 UTC]

After installing sys-apps/microcode-ctl-1.28-r1 there is no /etc/init.d/microcode-ctl service to start.

In wiki (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Intel_microcode#OpenRC) we can read:

«
You can now start microcode-ctl:

root #/etc/init.d/microcode_ctl start

To start microcode-ctl at boot time, add it your boot runlevel:

root #rc-update add microcode_ctl boot
»

but there is no such files and services in /etc/init.d/

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install sys-apps/microcode-ctl-1.28-r1 
2. try to start or add microcode-ctl service to runlevel boot
3.

[Comment 1 eroen 2016-02-26 18:52:25 UTC]

Related links:

1: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit?id=719cc5ef240b766953ddbe1e7a6593f8091eed12
2: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=528712#c41
3: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557278

From [2] it appears it was intended to move microcode loading to genkernel initramfs, but this has not happened yet[3].

[Comment 2 Elizabeth Myers 2016-02-26 23:05:36 UTC]

Hi,

If you hadn't noticed when emerging:

* The init scripts have been removed as they are unsafe.  If you want to update
* the microcode in your system, please use an initramfs.  See bug #528712#41 for
* details (and bug #557278 for genkernel users).

This is intentional behaviour.