On Sat, Dec 09, 2023 at 05:06:47PM +0100, Roland Clobus wrote: >On 09/12/2023 15:48, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Package: cdimage.debian.org >> Severity: important >> Tags: a11y >> >> Testing the gnome live image for the 12.3 release... >> >> Running d-i from that image complained early on about missing Intel SOF >> firmware. Later on, the same image finds and loads intel wifi firmware >> just fine. Checking on the image, all the firmware debs are sym-linked >> in /firmware just fine but we don't have the extra metadata file >> (Contents file and dep11 stuff). Early on, AFAICS this means that the >> sof firmware isn't detected and loaded. >> >> Indeed, checking a d-i speech installation from this image, I don't >> get audio. Argh. >> >> Checking the same machine (Thinkpad T14s) with the amd64 netinst, it >> successfully loads firmware and starts the speech installer. > >This isn't new for Bookworm 12.3, is it? There has been no change in the >images generated by live-build regarding the /firmware folder, they have >always contained just the symlinked .deb files.
Nod; this is just the first time I've realised this behaviour. >I only recently started to look deeper into the special folders for the >installer and noticed that the content of /firmware differs between the >netinst and the live images. > >Let's discuss this under less time pressure (today is the 12.3 release day). >I think that this ticket could be re-assigned (or cloned) to live-build for >the implementation of the fix. > >If needed, could a 12.3.1 live image be released, with just this fix, instead >of waiting for 12.4? For other reasons, we're about to do a quick-turnaround 12.4. But otherwise the sentiment is fine, yes! :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back
