Setup uefi stubs with systemd-boot for laptop

Directly booting the stubs currently does not seem to work either due to
a buggy UEFI implementation or the embedded cmdline being overwritten,
see https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/up8h6l/comment/i8jkuf7/

tasks/setup-laptop.yml

@@ -1,18 +1,134 @@
 # TODO: set fan settings to `quiet` with smbios-thermal-ctl
-# TODO: provision mkinitcpio
-# TODO: provision modprobe
-# TODO: provision sysctl?
-#
-- name: create udev rule
+
+- name: remove the sysctl.d directory
   become: true
   file:
-    path: '/etc/udev/rules.d/00-remove-nvidia.rules'
+    path: /etc/sysctl.d
     state: absent
 
-- name: blacklist kernel module
+- name: recreate the sysctl.d directory
   become: true
   file:
-    path: '/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf'
+    path: /etc/sysctl.d
+    state: directory
+    mode: 755
+
+- name: copy sysctl files
+  become: true
+  template:
+    src: '{{ item.src }}'
+    dest: '{{ item.dest }}'
+  loop:
+    - {
+        src: 'templates/laptop/sysctl/99-sysrq.conf.j2',
+        dest: '/etc/sysctl.d/99-sysrq.conf'
+    }
+    - {
+        src: 'templates/laptop/sysctl/98-forward.conf.j2',
+        dest: '/etc/sysctl.d/98-foward.conf'
+    }
+  notify: reload sysctl configuration
+
+- name: remove the modprobe.d directory
+  become: true
+  file:
+    path: /etc/modprobe.d
     state: absent
-    owner: root
-    group: root
+
+- name: recreate the modprobe.d directory
+  become: true
+  file:
+    path: /etc/modprobe.d
+    state: directory
+    mode: 755
+
+- name: copy kernel parameters template
+  become: true
+  template:
+    src: 'templates/laptop/cmdline.j2'
+    dest: '/etc/kernel/cmdline'
+
+- name: remove the mkinitcpio directories
+  become: true
+  file:
+    path: '{{ item }}'
+    state: absent
+  loop:
+    - /etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d
+    - /etc/mkinitcpio.d
+
+- name: recreate the mkinitcpio directories
+  become: true
+  file:
+    path: '{{ item }}'
+    state: directory
+    mode: 755
+  loop:
+    - /etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d
+    - /etc/mkinitcpio.d
+
+- name: copy mkinitcpio configuration files
+  become: true
+  template:
+    src: '{{ item.src }}'
+    dest: '{{ item.dest }}'
+  loop:
+    - {
+        src: 'templates/laptop/mkinitcpio/99-modules.conf.j2',
+        dest: '/etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d/99-modules.conf'
+    }
+    - {
+        src: 'templates/laptop/mkinitcpio/99-hooks.conf.j2',
+        dest: '/etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d/99-hooks.conf'
+    }
+    - {
+        src: 'templates/laptop/mkinitcpio/linux.preset.j2',
+        dest: '/etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset'
+    }
+    - {
+        src: 'templates/laptop/mkinitcpio/linux-lts.preset.j2',
+        dest: '/etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux-lts.preset'
+    }
+
+- name: regenerate initramfs images
+  become: true
+  command: 'mkinitcpio --allpresets'
+  register: mkinitcpio_stats
+
+- name: log mkinitcpio stdout
+  debug:
+    var: mkinitcpio_stats.stdout_lines
+
+- name: create a Linux UEFI boot entry
+  become: true
+  command: efibootmgr \
+    --create \
+    --disk /dev/nvme0n1 \
+    --part 1 \
+    --label 'Arch Linux'  \
+    --loader '\EFI\Linux\linux.efi'\
+    --unicode
+  register: efi_linux_stats
+  when: register_uefi_entry
+
+- name: log efibootmgr stdout
+  debug:
+    var: efi_linux_stats.stdout_lines
+  when: register_uefi_entry
+
+- name: create a Linux LTS UEFI boot entry
+  become: true
+  command: efibootmgr \
+    --create \
+    --disk /dev/nvme0n1 \
+    --part 1 \
+    --label 'Arch Linux LTS'  \
+    --loader '\EFI\Linux\linux-lts.efi'\
+    --unicode
+  register: efi_linux_lts_stats
+  when: register_uefi_entry
+
+- name: log efibootmgr LTS stdout
+  debug:
+    var: efi_linux_lts_stats.stdout_lines
+  when: register_uefi_entry