On Sat, 13 Jan 2018, Thomas Liske wrote: > wouldn't the microcode updates included into the initrd automaticly? I > don't find any config option in intel-microcode or initramfs-tools to > disable adding the microcode updates. I would expect that > intel-microcode is removed in such cases.
/etc/default/intel-microcode and /etc/default/amd64-microcode. You can disable them, yes. Or force-enable them. And in intel-microcode's case, you can tell it to do pretty much anything as far as microcode selection goes. > I still prefere to ignore the initrd completly since it is not provided by > Debian but build on the host and so it can be broken or outdated or > isn't used at all. It is hard to find the correct initrd file, > especially for 3rd party or self-build kernels not using the kernel-package. Yes, it is a mess. -- Henrique Holschuh
