From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Nov 17 15:10:32 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB93AA30015 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 15:10:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wm0-x235.google.com (mail-wm0-x235.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::235]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6C4D514C6 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 15:10:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: by wmec201 with SMTP id c201so30583147wme.1 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 07:10:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=T47pWEezUukLZXKfA4n86s4vMZaJES3oJ0Ykm4bgyks=; b=EH94jgf1/RxljQAsXkMf1QGwIbxKmp/vyazzKHW1G2mW9TL4vFLOXOnppshwytGjbb FQ1FTW262P8I92Lrf2zEQmxw2GeSNNff6w5He9TgDZGb1DiMJJmdrh8s6pzNMBpvMvbT CLn1hmQb08pAiD+vl8XpfyYrkRwQlYYMSsCSx+NL0dONHBDDFY6BUKppplGtm097KDbM tZADiSGC0U4g6b2fsm57VQ2FLG2KXnQzQbY6CAJ23T+XqK2d2MlhkVrU5gwzUvlNzUKM Oa5vtiNzVxaL2BRXnOnr6DuqFY05/uuwJ25lyFH0GeXjqLl+VS7cTAUnJkpucDOQ9tPL 8MZA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.28.222.4 with SMTP id v4mr3490268wmg.67.1447773029914; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 07:10:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.194.16.231 with HTTP; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 07:10:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <564B3E4D.7070808@gmail.com> References: <564B3E4D.7070808@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 09:10:29 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Is processor microcode advised? From: Adam Vande More To: Will Senn Cc: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 15:10:33 -0000 On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Will Senn 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