Can we bundle the microcode update directly with the kernel?

Normally this kind of thing is anathema to the upstream kernel
developers, they're historically big fans of mechanism in the kernel and
policy in userspace, but they've chosen to flip that policy on its head
for this specific case and put the policy in the kernel, too.

Could we / should we take the next step and bundle the microcode
directly with the kernel? I'm not entirely sure what the implementation
would look like, maybe we'd check it into the kernel package directly,
maybe we'd still keep the microcode in its own source package and use it
as a `Build-Depends:` for the kernel, and copy it that way... perhaps
there's other, better, choices.

I'm just curious if we could make this simpler by recognizing that the
mechanism/policy split has been violated, and run with it.

Thanks

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