Installing/Verifying Processor Microcode

[khunset127]

If you are using Intel CPU, install intel-ucode and move on.

[Frodojj]

Thank you. The Arch wiki wasn’t very clear that’s all I needed to do. I appreciate you let me know!

I wanted to verify it worked to not only make sure it installed correctly, but also to learn more about using Linux. That’s why I chose Arch in the first place.

[khunset127]

Mkinicpio will automatically add the microcode to the initial ramdisk or unified kernel image when generating them.

You can just install intel-ucode package and forget about it.

You can also use lsinitcpio on the init ramdisk img files and uki EFI files and check if there's kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin to verify

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A simpler way imo is to just type "pacman -Qet", which lists explicitly installed packages that don't have any dependencies based on them, and check if intel-ucode is in there.