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Comment by mrmondo | Hacker News Reader

To update the intel-ucode package to the system:

- 1. Ensure the existence of /sys/devices/system/cpu/microcode/reload

- 2. Copy intel-ucode directory to /lib/firmware, overwrite the files in /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/

- 3. Write the reload interface to 1 to reload the microcode files, e.g. echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/microcode/reload

don't forget to update your initramfs, else on reboot it won't be applied

on debian: update-initramfs -u

check with dmesg | grep microcode

Thanks, and on RHEL/CentOS/Fedora:

  dracut -f

You forgot to say "on Linux".