Hello, El dt., 8 de des. 2020, 16:04, Mark Pearson <markpear...@lenovo.com> va escriure:
> > I studied the different options time ago, Fedora ships it's own > > separate package, Ubuntu merges it into firmware-linux-nonfree, > > firmware could also be built but dependencies would be hard to > > package/maintain - as I understood - those need a forked xtensa > > compiler. > From my point of view (admittedly limited) there is limited benefit to > building your own unsigned firmware as it won't load on our systems. > I was focusing (selfishly) on the intel-signed firmware and it being a > non-free repository. I'm hoping that's not a big sticking point.... > > > > > As I understood Maks was given a laptop by Lenovo to test the update > > and he was going to package sof firmware within firmware-linux-nonfree > > - which apparently has not happened yet. > > I don't want to make a big deal out of this, I fully appreciate that > everybody has their own priorities and things going on. 2020 has been a > bit of a basketcase of a year! However, Maks has stopped replying to my > emails and so I'm writing that particular exercise off as a failure at > this point. > > I figured that I would have a go at packaging myself - see what was > involved. If what I've done is complete nonsense and useless, that's > fine - if someone can point out what is wrong I'll try and fix it. > If someone else already has this in hand and I can support that let me > know. > If what I've done is enough to get someone more competent started that > would be awesome too. I'd like to be involved and help out as a learning > exercise but don't want to get in the way. > > I honestly don't mind what happens next. My aim is to get Debian working > on Lenovo platforms and SOF firmware is currently by far and away the > biggest blocker. I had a quiet evening last week so figured I would play > with it and see where it led. I have no expectations at this point - > this is just me having some fun and learning something new. > > > > > If we want to support these laptops in bullseye we need to ship such > firmware. > Right, overall no big fuzz, but it would be nice to get these laptops supported by bullseye. Regards
