Comment 39 for bug 1194370

Please do not open duplicate bug report, instead nominate the bug report for series. That is the correct workflow as per SRU process.

I've now nominated this bug for Saucy.

However, since saucy kernel does not support loading early firmware backporting initramfs-tools fix would break existing system since early firmware would be generated / included in the initramfs, yet kernel will not load it.

Backporting such change (kernel + initramfs) from Trusty to Saucy falls outside of SRU process, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

At the moment, in Saucy, intel-microcode correctly adds microcode into the initramfs and uses late loading of microcode.