Unclear On The New MDS Patch

[Tim Daneliuk]

On 5/19/19 5:03 PM, RW via freebsd-questions wrote:
> On Sun, 19 May 2019 16:10:09 -0500
> Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> 
>> OK, so I have a confusion (nothing new there ...).  I am running
>> 11.3-PRE. Some questions:
>>
>> 1) If I put this in rc.conf:
>>
>>       microcode_update_enable="YES"
> 
> You need to install the package devcpu-data or the port
> sysutils/devcpu-data.
> 
> The microcode is then loaded from the rc.d script (as above) or
> alternately from loader.conf. 

OK, that makes more sense now, thanks.

What about cloud based servers like Digital Ocean FreeBSD droplets?  Does
microcode updating even make sense in that context since the underlying
system is actually what touches the hardware?


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