Re: [Devil-linux-develop] ia32 microcode update

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> >> Should we include this in DL ?
> >>
> >> http://freshmeat.net/projects/intelp6microcodeupdateutility/
> >
> > Care to explain more about what it does and it's advantages to us
> > non-hardware types?  The web page is pretty useless in that respect.
> 
> It basically updates the CPU software. This has to be done after each boot.
> Intel started doing this, to install 'bugfixes'.

Is it installing the latest Intel code, or some custom code?

What is it going to fix?  

 - BS