Package: debian-installer Version: 20210731 Severity: normal Tags: a11y d-i
Hello, As mentioned in the Bullseye errata, there seems to be a number of sound cards that require loading a firmware to be able to emit sound (e.g. Intel SOF). Unfortunately currently the installer loads firmware after loading the ISO image, while speech synthesis is needed at the very first interaction with the user, which is usually before that. We'd thus want (for the firmware-enabled image) to include firmware in the initrd somehow. We discussed a bit on IRC, possibly we could just, at debian-cd step, catenate the cpio archives, or unpack/assemble/repack, or ship several initrds. Samuel -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.13.0 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled
