How to update microcode in endless OS

Hi folks,

I have an ASUS FX553VD with Intel i5-8700HQ processor,
AMI Bios ver. 303 and endless OS 3.4.2.

I have to update the microcode.

Installing the intel-ucode package does not work - not part of flatpack?!.
Trying to overwrite /dev/cpu/microcode with the up-to-date microcode.dat fails…

What is the correct approach for endless os?

Thanks,
Mic

@mhall119 Could help

We are adding support for automatic microcode updates. I can’t say for sure which release it will be in, but I’d expect it to be within the next few months.

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Hi Mic

Endless OS 3.3.5 was released earlier this week, and it should automatically upgrade your microcode, assuming there is a microcode update available in Debian’s intel-ucode package.

After upgrading, to test, run at the terminal: dmesg | grep microcode

If it updated, you will see a message similar to this one in the output:

[ 0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0xba, date = 2017-04-09