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theking2

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From: Romanshorn Switzerland

Registered: 2009-03-04

Posts: 372

[SOLVED] Intel Microcode

I'm trying, but failing, to understand what is in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mi … de_Updates regarding intel microcode.

Should I actually do something manually? I use a pretty straight forward grub2 boot process and have not changed anything large since the move to systemd. Will the grub-mkconfig handle all this?

Last edited by theking2 (2015-01-03 13:00:26)

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TheSaint

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From: my computer

Registered: 2007-08-19

Posts: 1,536

Re: [SOLVED] Intel Microcode

In short, if you don't do anything, you'll use the old microcode.
More details were already discussed here

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do it good first, it will be faster than do it twice the saint

brix

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Registered: 2014-05-26

Posts: 69

Re: [SOLVED] Intel Microcode

...though the current version of the grub package (1:2.02.beta2-5) incorporates the change in /etc/grub.d/10_linux:

intel_ucode=
if test -e "/boot/intel-ucode.img" ; then
    gettext_printf "Found Intel Microcode image\n" >&2
    intel_ucode="$(make_system_path_relative_to_its_root /boot/intel-ucode.img)"
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