update-intel-microcode(8)

update-intel-microcode8

Check and download new intel microcode

Usage

update-intel-microcode [--no-reload]

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

Releases

Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

  1. 5.0–6.0

Author

This utility is written by Giacomo Catenazzi for Debian.

From microcode.ctl 1.17-13 in Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.