On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
These changes have been done precisely to avoid these problems, the first link and its responses summarize the situation pretty well.
The file at https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt gives a method that should allow creating a combined initrd img file that anyone booting with refind EFI may be able to test. There are suggested methods to implement early microcode loading for the other main bootloaders in the arch wiki, but until now for refind it seems not to have been verified to work. It would be nice to see verification that early microcode loading has been successful using all the main bootloaders/bootmanagers, as well as direct efistub boot. -- mike c