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Authored by ziaee on Jan 5 2026, 5:50 AM.
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All intel systems running 15.0 or 14.3 support loading at boot time
without cpu-microcode-rc, therefore, do not depend on it by default.
Update the package message with the current up-to-date instructions.

I don't understand ports yet and this might not be correct way to
achieve what I'm trying to do.

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ziaee requested review of this revision.Jan 5 2026, 5:50 AM
ziaee created this revision.
sysutils/cpu-microcode-intel/Makefile
3–4

Since the package will change, you need a PORTREVISION bump below this line.
PORTREVSION= 1

36

OPTIONS_DEFAULT= SPLIT

sysutils/cpu-microcode-intel/pkg-message
4–8

Since this is the port/package for Intel microcode updates, I think we could even trim this down to:

To enable microcode updates:

ziaee marked 2 inline comments as done.

added PORTREVISION, fixed OPTIONS_DEFAULT; thanks @jrm!

sysutils/cpu-microcode-intel/pkg-message
4–8

If we removed cpu-microcode-rc, I would feel more comfortable with this, but there are three ways for microcode to get updated, and two different microcode packages, and I think probably lots of people install the meta port.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jan 7 2026, 9:14 PM
This revision now requires review to proceed.Jan 7 2026, 9:30 PM
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jan 7 2026, 9:30 PM