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Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:22:04 +0100
From: kaltheat@googlemail.com
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Subject: Re: Intel microcode update
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On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:06:25PM +0100, kaltheat@googlemail.com wrote:
>  
> Hi,
>  
> I was wondering how to update microcode of an Intel CPU and came across
> cpucontrol and sysutils/devcpu-data . But last mentioned port is not up-to-date
> anymore. I searched Intel's webpages for microcode updates and found archives
> for Linux containing one single microcode.dat file. Could someone tell me if
> that file is compatible with FreeBSD? As devcpu-data installs .fw files it
> might be proper to convert/compile microcode.dat in some way. How?
>  
> Regards,
> kaltheat
>

Just for the records: Question was answered [1]here.

1.  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2013-March/042248.html