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No need to change anything, it will just work.
Microcode and iGPU drivers.
iGPU drivers should both be in Mesa, so no change needed by the user. Microcode it'd depend on the distro but most should support both out of the box.
amdgpu is distinctly separate from Mesa. Some distos have additional Mesa packages that also need to be instealled, now that you mention it.
amdgpu is a kernel module. Nearly every distro includes it in their kernel by default. Unless OP rolled their own kernel, they should already have it. If they start up their machine with an AMD graphics card of any kind they most likely shouldn't need to install or configure anything.
You're right about amdgpu, my mistake. On arch systems individual Mesa components need to be installed though, like the specific Vulkan modules to be used (amdvlk or RADV).
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU
Thank you🙏