Arch Linux Developers about the changes in the organization of installing packages with the Linux kernel. All official kernel packages (linux, linux-lts, linux-zen, and linux-hardened) will no longer actually install the kernel image in the /boot directory. The installation and removal of kernel images will be handled by a script. (hooks for handling kernel installation operations have only been added to mkinitcpio for now, but will be available in dracut in the future). This change will allow kernel packages to be more self-sufficient and increase the flexibility of the boot process while maintaining backward compatibility (the transition to the new organization does not require any manual actions from the user).
Source: opennet.ru
