On Sat, 07 Sep 2013, shirish शिरीष wrote: > Would installing the intel processor microcode package and the > icu-tools have any benefit to me ? > > cpuid -1 | grep 'Intel Pentium' > family = Intel Pentium Pro/II/III/Celeron/Core/Core > 2/Atom, AMD Athlon/Duron, Cyrix M2, VIA C3 (6) > (synth) = Intel Pentium Dual-Core Processor E5000/E6000 (Wolfdale R0), 45nm
Probably yes. > The CPU is around 7 yrs. old hence curious if this will improve the CPU or > not ? I feel the easiest way to know this is to actually install the packages and check whether the kernel reports it updated microcode or not in /var/log/kern.log. Here's an example: grep 'microcode.*update' /var/log/kern.log kernel: microcode: CPU0 updated to revision 0xab, date = ZZZZ-ZZ-ZZ If you want to verify it manually, you need to know the numeric signature of the processor, and search for it on the microcode package changelog. You can install the iucode-tool package, and ask iucode-tool to check the processor signature: *as root*: modprobe cpuid apt-get install iucode-tool /usr/sbin/iucode-tool --scan-system Then, you look for that signature in the tables at: http://ftp-master.metadata.debian.org/changelogs/non-free/i/intel-microcode/unstable_changelog and if you find it there, it is very possible that there is a microcode update for your processor (there's the pf mask detail, but if you want to know more about that, please read iucode-tool's README documentation and manpage). It is also possible that your BIOS already has the latest version of the microcode for your processor. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130907120048.gc16...@khazad-dum.debian.net