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Date:      Wed, 13 May 2026 13:31:50 -0300
From:      Joseph Mingrone <jrm@freebsd.org>
To:        Nuno Teixeira <eduardo@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org,  dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org,  FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: git: 64880edb1ae1 - main - sysutils/cpu-microcode-intel: Update to 2026-05-12 release
Message-ID:  <861pffw9s9.fsf@asn.ftfl.ca>
In-Reply-To: <CAFDf7U%2BJv3dx=5akMjQqO0dBBQMr7ndCNq345b6jwkNCODXxVw@mail.gmail.com>
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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

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