Hi,
liangyue <nvcsadjk...@outlook.com> wrote:
> My wifi can not connect. The installer told me that I missing firmware
> files are
> regulatory.db, and I solved it by add package named wireless-regdb. I think
> the package
> wireless-regdb should be add to nonfree iso.
> By the way, my amd gpu rx590 also need firmware, because I can't enter
> desktop
> environment until I install the package firmware-amd-graphics. I think the
> two firmware
> should included in nonfree iso for everyone like my haardware.
Two different issues here:
1. regulatory.db from wireless-regdb package is not included in non-free
firmware-including d-i images.
That's because that package is not caught by the mechanism in debian-cd, to find
firmware packages (because its name does not contain "firmware" or "microcode").
So, what to do here?
Rename package into something like wireless-regdb-firmware or similar?
Or patch debian-cd, to find that package?
An (untested) patch against debian-cd is attached.
2. Firmware for graphics cards is included in firmware d-i image, but is
not installed by the installer.
That seems to become a big issue these days, given the number of reports
stating about such cases.
Maybe we could get something done to minimize the impact for users here?
I have already mentioned this some weeks ago
(see https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2020/12/msg00026.html).
My proposal at
https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2020/12/msg00160.html
is of course not very smart, requiring input from user which package to
install, but that's the only I can come up with, lacking more skills.
However, maybe it's better than nothing?
(We could rephrase the template, to mention the package names for graphic-card
firmwares exactly there...)
Holger
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diff --git a/tools/generate_firmware_task b/tools/generate_firmware_task
index 40c4ddd3..1d66c3b8 100755
--- a/tools/generate_firmware_task
+++ b/tools/generate_firmware_task
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ sub check_packages($$) {
m/^Package: (\S+)/m and $pkg = $1;
m/^Filename: (\S+)/m and $filename = $1;
- if (! ($pkg =~ /(microcode|firmware)/)) {
+ if (! ($pkg =~ /(microcode|firmware|wireless-regdb-udeb)/)) {
next;
}
diff --git a/tools/make-firmware-image b/tools/make-firmware-image
index e5d7438b..d25b1e72 100755
--- a/tools/make-firmware-image
+++ b/tools/make-firmware-image
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ rm -rf $TMPDIR/firmware
mkdir -p $TMPDIR/firmware
FILES=`$BASEDIR/tools/catz ${MIRROR}/dists/${SUITE}/*/binary-*/Packages.*z* | \
- grep-dctrl -Pe '.*(firmware|microcode).*' -s Filename -n | sort -u`
+ grep-dctrl -Pe '.*(firmware|microcode|wireless-regdb-udeb).*' -s Filename -n | sort -u`
for FILE in $FILES; do
# Don't use "grep -q" here, it causes errors from tar
