Hi, On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 04:08:53PM +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: > On 2016-01-03 15:59:37, Svante Signell wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This message was not intended to be sent to a debian-* mailing list by > > the author. However, since it is (in my opinion) of large interest I > > got the permission to forward it to debian-devel. Hopefully, also some > > of the debian-devel subscribers will appreciate it too. > > Wow, here I was thinking this would be some informed oppinion, but: > > "Oh, there are tools with which you can periscope into > initramfs, but have you ever really looked at everything in an > initramfs." > > Wait, what? Yes, I have many times unpacked the simple cpio archive that > an iniramfs is, and I have looked at its entire contents. It's not black > magic.
It is a bit more complicated if you use microcode updates: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=807759 but the tools to handle this are all there and in Debian. Cheers, -- Guido