Bug#719944: initramfs-tools: backport of prepend_earlyinitramfs() to Wheezy

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Sat, 17 Aug 2013, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 00:22 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> [...]
> > People do use the LTS 3.10 kernel with Debian wheezy, it would be a very
> > good thing to be able to better support this kernel, and support early
> > firmware updates for those people out-of-the-box.  It will also come on very
> > handy for wheezy-and-a-half (updated kernel) if we decide to release it.
> [...]
> 
> We have wheezy-backports for this.  I don't see any need to change the
> wheezy version.

So, I should do a stable update for intel-microcode that doesn't support
early firmware mode?  And anyone trying a 3.10 kernel on wheezy with
encrypted root will get stuck without a keyboard and no way to boot because
they need initramfs-tools v0.112 or later?

I can do it, it will be somewhat annoying due to version numbering dances,
but it is not difficult at all.  However, we could really enhance the
support of out-of-the-box wheezy for newer kernels with a no-risk stable
update of initramfs-tools v0.113...

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  Henrique Holschuh