On 2019-05-22 17:25, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general wrote: >> Unfortunately this process currently only works for AMD, but not for >> Intel, since Arch Linux doesn't package the necessary files standalone: >> they are downloaded by intel-ucode and used to produce a CPIO image, but >> not added to /usr/lib/firmware/intel-ucode/ separately. If dracut >> becomes the default initramfs generator, this should be changed so that >> microcode updates work out of the box with dracut. >> > > This is not a huge issue, if the microcode is passed alongside the > initramfs > on the cmdline, like we have been doing. > > We might also change the intel-ucode package, but it is not a > requirement and > will not prevent the move to dracut.
This is certainly not a blocker, no, but would be very nice to have: dracut can bundle kernel, kernel command line, microcode updates and initramfs in a single EFI executable using the "--uefi" parameter. This means setting up booting becomes as simple as dracut --uefi bootctl install No further configuration is needed at all because dracut and bootctl implement the Boot Loader Specification [1] (slight caveat: there is currently a small bug if the EFI system partition is mounted to /efi [2]). Regards, Jonas [1] https://systemd.io/BOOT_LOADER_SPECIFICATION#type-2-efi-unified-kernel-images [2] https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/pull/574
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