From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 19 22:06:36 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 872A9300 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 22:06:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kaltheat@zoho.com) Received: from sender1.zohomail.com (sender1.zohomail.com [72.5.230.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F60499B for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 22:06:36 +0000 (UTC) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=zapps768; d=zoho.com; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:mime-version:content-type:user-agent:sender; b=G9yvuNp57dn+MWOjyuK/hiskqHHsg78EwNhkedO2wZBX+07p8IjMeQxo+GXmVqWNIb3srBt+EPHG rv85a8ZI3LVjEjV8cQEq/5m7EI+WFACg8r6JNagaLoG6DEJaGGhx Received: from sol (95-154-103-86.dynamic.dsl.tng.de [86.103.154.95]) by mx.zohomail.com with SMTPS id 1363730789347796.6853305771597; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:06:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:06:25 +0100 From: kaltheat@googlemail.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Intel microcode update Message-ID: <20130319220625.GB5368@sol> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: kaltheat@zoho.com X-ZohoMailClient: External X-Zoho-Virus-Status: 2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 22:06:36 -0000 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