On 27/08/12 01:34, Adam Bolte wrote: > For the most part however, Intel doesn't issue microcode updates.
Yes they do. That's why there's an "update-intel-microcode" program included in the microcode.ctl package in Debian/Ubuntu, so you can grab the latest version they've published rather than the one included in the distro. Latest update as in June apparently. samuel@eris:~/Downloads/linux$ md5sum /usr/share/misc/intel-microcode.dat a0ed9124a72b31cbb1b307ae4e9c0022 /usr/share/misc/intel-microcode.dat samuel@eris:~/Downloads/linux$ dlocate !$ dlocate /usr/share/misc/intel-microcode.dat intel-microcode: /usr/share/misc/intel-microcode.dat samuel@eris:~/Downloads/linux$ sudo update-intel-microcode successfully downloaded Intel 20120606 microcode samuel@eris:~/Downloads/linux$ md5sum /usr/share/misc/intel-microcode.dat 1a1cf79dd1fab186c8a8fbae69aa9649 /usr/share/misc/intel-microcode.dat Those microcode updates are (apparently) usually applied via BIOS updates for proprietary operating systems. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list [email protected] http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb
