The possible downsides to bundling the microcode with the kernel are: - For users, inability to downgrade microcode without also downgrading the kernel. - For Ubuntu Security Team, inability to release microcode updates outside the kernel release cycle. This had been curtailed by the AMD SHA-checking patch, but some flexibility still remains. Microcode updates are released well in advance of any communication of what they fix, so their SHAs could be included in kernel releases, without the corresponding microcode updates. - Creating an inconsistency with the intel-microcode package, which does not have these limitations.
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