does booster support cpu microcode loading?

[Elyas2024]

i asked gemini and it said no. im on void linux for the record. i wanna switch for faster boot times but i do want to know if i should add a line to load microcode or not in limine.conf (bootloader config)

[anatol]

Hello,

booster is a an initramfs tool. Loading microcode at the boot time (and before initram) is a bootloader responsibility. Majority of the modern bootloaders allow to configure multiple images where the first image will be microcode one, and the second image coming from booster.

see
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Microcode#Microcode_in_a_separate_initramfs_file
https://github.com/anatol/ucode-image-gen