Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:09:22 +0100 From: Yamagi Burmeister <lists@yamagi.org> To: kaltheat@googlemail.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Intel microcode update Message-ID: <20130322090922.6d383a7e8aa515d06851e650@yamagi.org> In-Reply-To: <1231719416.448222.1363891714362.JavaMail.sas1@[172.29.251.236]> References: <20130319220625.GB5368@sol> <1231719416.448222.1363891714362.JavaMail.sas1@[172.29.251.236]>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Multipart=_Fri__22_Mar_2013_09_09_22_+0100_aInbnk7+YWOIAfP_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, yes the microcode file provided by Intel is incompatible with FreeBSD. You'll need to split it into individual files for each CPU. I vaguely remeber that there was a script or something like that bundled with one of the ports. Nevertheless attached is a small C program which does the same. It's not written by me, I just found it somewhere on the web. Ciao, Yamagi On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:48:34 +0100 kaltheat <kaltheat@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hopefully some hacker could help me ... > > ============ Forwarded message ============ > >From : kaltheat@googlemail.com > To : <questions@freebsd.org> > Date : Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:06:25 +0100 > Subject : Intel microcode update > ============ Forwarded message ============ > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Homepage: www.yamagi.org XMPP: yamagi@yamagi.org GnuPG/GPG: 0xEFBCCBCB --Multipart=_Fri__22_Mar_2013_09_09_22_+0100_aInbnk7+YWOIAfP_--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20130322090922.6d383a7e8aa515d06851e650>