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Date:      Wed, 18 Nov 2015 08:00:04 +0000
From:      krad <kraduk@gmail.com>
To:        Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
Cc:        Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Is processor microcode advised?
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or UEFI, sorry being pedantic

On 17 November 2015 at 15:10, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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