Is processor microcode advised?

[krad]

or UEFI, sorry being pedantic

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

> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Will Senn <will.senn at 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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