update-intel-microcode8

Usage

Overview

The update-intel-microcode is a script that check if there is a new microcode data for the Intel CPU. Eventually it downloads, installs and loads the new microcode data, used by the microcode_ctl(8) utility. There is an optional argument:

--no-reload After installing the microcode, it dosn't try to load the new microcode in the CPU.

Examples

update-intel-microcode

checks, and eventually downloads, installs and loads a new microcode.

Files

/usr/share/misc/intel-microcode.dat

The default microcode location