This port uses the cpuctl(4) microcode update facility to keep your Intel
processor's firmware up-to-date.
Updating your microcode can help to mitigate certain potential security
vulnerabilities in CPUs as well as address certain functional issues that could,
for example, result in unpredictable system behavior such as hangs, crashes,
unexpected reboots, data errors, etc.
sysutils/cpu-microcode-*: Reorganize CPU microcode ports
Prior to this update, sysutils/devcpu-data, which only contained an RC
script, had run dependencies on the AMD and Intel microcode ports. This
made it cumbersome to have just the AMD or just the Intel microcode
ports installed. With this change, the microcode ports now depend on
the RC script.
Other changes:
- Use more intuitive port names: cpu-microcode, cpu-microcode-amd,
cpu-microcode-intel, and cpu-microcode-rc.
- Add the metaport, cpu-microcode, which pulls in all related ports.
- Pet portclippy/portfmt
Reviewed by: lwhsu, markj
Approved by: sbruno (maintainer)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D41406
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles
Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.
This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.
Approved by: portmgr (tcberner)
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles
It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.
Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.
There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.
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sysutils/devcpu-data: Split off two new ports for vendor data
sysutils/devcpu-data is now just an RC script that optionally depends on
two new ports, sysutils/devcpu-data-amd and sysutils/devcpu-data-intel.
The two new ports each contain vendor microcode data.
While here:
- Set missing license information. The license was obtained from
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/LICENSE.amd-ucode
- Update varaible ordering per portclippy
Reviewed by: decke, emaste, markj
Approved by: sbruno (maintainer)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32349
