X-Debbugs-Cc: ge...@infradead.org Package: firmware-nonfree Version: 20170823-1 Severity: grave Tags: d-i Justification: renders package unusable
The current firmware-nonfree package is out of date and does not include firmware files the drivers in the Buster kernel require. Specifically, the Buster kernel driver (qede) for QLogic network adapters needs firmware 'qed_init_values_zipped-8.33.1.0.bin', which is available in the upstream kernel firmware from commit [1], but this is not included in the current firmware-nonfree package. This situation makes it very difficult for users trying to netboot install to machines with QLogic network adapters (Cavium Thunder2). >From the kernel log: qede 0000:0a:00.0: firmware: failed to load qed/qed_init_values_zipped-8.33.1.0.bin [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/qed?id=5582ca4caff8dc029b136722d11e7df6f40888ad -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: arm64 (aarch64) Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-1-arm64 (SMP w/224 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
