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i don't understand the hostility.
i asked a question about needing yubikey software in a ramdisk image to enable decryption at boot time and most of the sources you provided don't mention it at all.
It's not mentioned because it's not required, yubikeys in general mostly leverage pre-existing "smartcard" facilities
Bystander observation: you were asked to clarify but essentially refused in a way that took more effort than simply doing so.