❦ 4 juin 2020 00:35 +00, Paul Wise: >> Then, we need the SOF firmwares, currently not in Debian. I see >> you have #960788. I just got aware of it through #962134. I am happy to >> help you on this package and get it uploaded. > > Unfortunately SOF firmware, while it has freely licensed source code, > is not (very) useful to package properly (reproducibly built from > source etc) for Debian. The issue is that many devices require the > firmware binaries to have an Intel signature on them, so even though > we have freely licensed source code, we do not have the four freedoms > since we cannot upload our own firmware binaries onto the audio > devices. So the best option here is for Intel to do the building and > signing and get them included in linux-firmware and then Debian pull > the latest version of that.
Unfortunately, updating firmware-nonfree is difficult: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=949019 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=962134 Also, related to Lenovo, a more recent version of iwlwifi is also needed to get a stable wifi. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=942563 I have also updated the firmwares for the GPU in hope of getting a better stability during the 5.3/5.4 era. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=931930 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=956221 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=956658 With the dock and a recent kernel, I also need a firmware for the Realtek NIC chipset (I didn't bother to open an issue). Ben just doesn't have time to do updates. However, checking the git repository, I see there may be a release in progress. So we could squeeze the SOF firmwares here. https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/firmware-nonfree/-/commits/master -- If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. -- J.R.R. Tolkien
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