Intel microcode

This article describes the process of updating the microcode on Intel processors.

Kernel
You need to activate the following kernel options:

Software
You can now install the microcode

And a tool to manipulate it

Configuration
After emerging, generate the microcode cpio archive using :

Now you need to change this small section of /etc/grub.d/10_linux from:

To this:

Regenerate your grub.cfg with:

Reboot and you're all done.

Verification
Here is an example of a CPU with no available microcode updates or the system was not configued to load them properly:

Here is the same CPU but with microcode updates being applied successfully:

Kernel
You need to activate the following kernel options:

Software
You can now install :

OpenRC
You can now start microcode-ctl:

To start microcode-ctl at boot time, add it your boot runlevel:

systemd
See: Systemd. Simply make sure that the Microcode loader is set as a module in the kernel configuration as noted above. You don't need to add a service or do anything else.