Fwd: Intel microcode update

[Yamagi Burmeister]

Hi,
yes the microcode file provided by Intel is incompatible with FreeBSD.
You'll need to split it into individual files for each CPU. I vaguely
remeber that there was a script or something like that bundled with one
of the ports. Nevertheless attached is a small C program which does the
same. It's not written by me, I just found it somewhere on the web.

Ciao,
Yamagi

On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:48:34 +0100
kaltheat <kaltheat at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hopefully some hacker could help me ...
> 
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> Date : Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:06:25 +0100
> Subject : Intel microcode update
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>  
> 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 
>  
> 
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