Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> (2021-07-26): > > ## proposed solution > > > > If others agree, I suggest we add the following somewhere in the > > installation guide (I don't think we should have a specific warning > > in the installer; or more specifically it would be way too late to > > have it be shown localized at this stage; more on that in the second > > part of my mail). Heavily summarized (to give readers of this bug > > report an idea, not for direct user consumption!!!): […] > > Given Paul's ACK, I'll turn this into a bug report against the > installation guide, with a slightly better draft.
This is my next action. > This was uploaded to unstable, I'm currently waiting for the updated > metadata to show up in the archive. That propagated to unstable, resulted in successful testing with a hacked debian-cd setup (pulling metadata from unstable instead of testing), so I augmented Paul's unblock hint for firmware-nonfree with a urgent, and we tested a non-hacked debian-cd setup as well. > Basically, we extract the relevant bits from the DEP-11 YAML file, and > generate patterns files that we ship on the firmware-enabled images: > - /firmware has firmware-*.deb > - /firmware/dep-11 has firmare-*.patterns > > Meanwhile, I've hacked d-i to include those files, built manually > while the rest was being worked on, so that I could test the runtime > on my test laptops. A difference between both (hacked d-i vs. proper debian-cd build) is where the firmware directory appears, and that was addressed in this upload (pushed to testing already): https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/hw-detect/-/commit/bc214296310c86f2144d50953b39d2f7628be136?w=1 https://tracker.debian.org/news/1245070/accepted-hw-detect-1146-source-into-unstable/ With that fix in place, I discovered another annoyance (this wouldn't have been a blocker in my book, but that could surprise people): https://bugs.debian.org/991587 [cdrom-detect] https://bugs.debian.org/991590 [iso-scan, cloned] which I've just fixed (even if that was only manually tested) in hw-detect + cdrom-detect; the iso-scan bug report can stay around, I don't think we need to rush acting on it: the cdrom-detect codepath is much more likely to be hit as far as I understand it (that's what happens with ISO images like netinst at least…). I'll retest “for real” once packages are in the archive, once I've triggered a new d-i daily build, and once debian-cd has spinned another firmware-enabled netinst daily build, but besides a possible typo here or there, I think I'm out of obvious issues that need fixing! (At least on those two machines I've been re-installing over and over.) > > - make sure the relevant information bubbles up to the dep11/Components > > files (YAML format, even if the excerpts above were XML); > > TODO. Done, with unstable, then with testing; everything looks good. > > - have debian-cd extract the relevant firmware package←→modalias > > mapping from YAML into one or N flat files to be consumed by d-i, for > > firmware-enabled images primarily (or exclusively); > > DONE, to be checked once the previous item is complete, and some > fixups might be required until a full image build behaves like my > heavily hacked netboot-gtk images (meaning purely from > debian-installer.git, no debian-cd involved). Done checking… and fixing (see details above). > Therefore, I'm tempted to blacklist this firmware file in hw-detect > (i.e. pretend it was never requested). Given Salvatore's mention of #969264 & #966218 (thanks!), I've added this commit: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/hw-detect/-/commit/82519629d9db3ccbcf7cc45ce87c0a7238008efd Besides some builds (hw-detect, cdrom-detect, linux) and some final tests (then migration to testing), I think we have all the pieces for D-I Bullseye RC 3. Whether we need a D-I Bullseye RC 4 (or 5…) for the final 11.0 builds will depend on bug reports we might received on RC 3 is out, and our ability (and confidence) with respect to triaging/fixing issues in a timely manner. If RC 3 doesn't end in seasonal fireworks, I'd be happy to defer any more code changes to 11.1… Time (and tests) will tell! Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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