amd64-microcode better initramfs hook

Hello Dimitri, or anyone else affected,

Accepted amd64-microcode into disco-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/amd64-microcode/3.20181128.1ubuntu1.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-disco to verification-done-disco. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-disco. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

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N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

> It is hard to generate initrd, with all microcodes included because the initramfs hook ignores preset defaults.

How does this impact users: why might a user want to generate such an initrd and what breaks by not being able to do it?

If another SRU team member already understands then that's fine, but I don't think that I can accept an SRU unless I can understand why we're doing it.

Hello Dimitri, or anyone else affected,

Accepted amd64-microcode into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/amd64-microcode/3.20181128.1~ubuntu0.18.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

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Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

This bug was fixed in the package amd64-microcode - 3.20191021.1ubuntu0.19.04.1

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amd64-microcode (3.20191021.1ubuntu0.19.04.1) disco; urgency=medium

  * Backport to Ubuntu 19.04 (LP: #1850752)

amd64-microcode (3.20191021.1ubuntu1) focal; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #1850752). Remaining changes:
    - initramfs-tools hook (debian/initramfs.hook):
      + Default to 'early' instead of 'auto' when building with
        MODULES=most
      + Do not override preset defaults from auto-exported conf
        snippets loaded by initramfs-tools.

amd64-microcode (3.20191021.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New microcode update packages from AMD upstream:
    + New Microcodes:
      sig 0x00830f10, patch id 0x08301025, 2019-07-11
    + Updated Microcodes:
      sig 0x00800f12, patch id 0x08001250, 2019-04-16
      sig 0x00800f82, patch id 0x0800820d, 2019-04-16
  * README: update for new release

amd64-microcode (3.20181128.1ubuntu1.1) disco; urgency=medium

  * Do not override preset defaults from auto-exported conf snippets
    loaded by initramfs-tools. This thus allows other hooks, or
    alternative confdir override the built-in defaults at mkinitramfs
    time. Specifically to support generating installer/golden/bare-metal
    initrds with all microcodes for any hardware. LP: #1840670

 -- Steve Beattie <email address hidden> Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:59:01 -0700