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Some distributions (Arch, Gentoo) ship prepacked microcode images. These are cpio images that follow the structure specified in the Linux kernel documentation (x86/microcode.rst, "Early load microcode"), the same structure dracut uses for its early microcode images. In case of Arch Linux, the microcode for Intel CPUs is currently only available in this packed form, /usr/lib/firmware/intel-ucode does not exist. This commit adds a way to make use of these images on such systems by unpacking them to the early cpio directory. (Note that the packed image cannot be used directly since dracut might need to add ACPI tables to the early initramfs.) This approach has the drawback that it is not possible to control the selection of CPUs to be included in the microcode file in host-only mode, so we only try it as a last ressort if no unpacked microcode could be found in fw_dir. The list of possible file names for the packed microcode image is taken from GRUB (cf. GRUB_EARLY_INITRD_LINUX_STOCK), but can be adapted by setting "early_microcode_image_name" (and "early_microcode_image_dir") in a dracut configuration file.master


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