Re: git: 64880edb1ae1 - main - sysutils/cpu-microcode-intel: Update to 2026-05-12 release

From: Joseph Mingrone <jrm_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 16:31:50 UTC
On Wed, 2026-05-13 at 16:22, Nuno Teixeira <eduardo@freebsd.org> wrote:
> .bin is huge around 16M, is that normal?

Yes, because all the microcode under intel-ucode/ is concatenated in the
post-extract target.  That's microcode covering CPUs from Pentium
Pro-era chips through to Granite Rapids/Arrow Lake.  It does this
because the loader accepts a blob and loops over the entries in that
blob and checks whether the signature and platform flags match the
current CPU.

Joe