intel-ucode

• -w and --write-earlyfw are different; the latter produces the correct .img directly rather than manually:
  • create a bin
  • run cpio with -H newc (new sVR4 format)
  • set ownership to 0:0
  • turn it into an image
  • change the cpio block size to 16 bytes, and remove header entries for the parent directories of the microcode data file (tools might complain about the non-standard cpio block size) and this will typically reduce the early initramfs size by 736 bytes (Alpine)
• --strict-checks is the default mode of operation
• --no-ignore-broken is also the default mode of operation
• --no-downgrade is also the default mode of operation
• intel-ucode/list and intel-ucode-with-caveats/list do not exist
• Licenses must be provided alongside the microcode binary blob