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

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

>> >> 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?

Intel Code

> What is it going to fix?

Nobody knows exactly, since Intel is not releasing this information.
They give out the updates and that's it....

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