Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 09:10:29 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is processor microcode advised? Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK3EMAU5iN4NC6jXQtugJbxyN%2Bm2OtN5-4cyXqnpy4fLcQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <564B3E4D.7070808@gmail.com> References: <564B3E4D.7070808@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> wrote: > Is it important/necessary/advisable to install microcode for Intel CPU's? > If so, how do you know which CPU's have updates? Also, after doing make > install in /usr/ports/sysutils/devcpu-data and adding > microcode_update_enable="YES" to rc.conf, how can you tell if anything was > applied - what do you look for in dmesg output > man cpuctl But normally this is just handled with a bios update. -- Adam
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