The upstream driver is broken in that it doesn't use the MODULE_FIRMWARE
macro.
** Also affects: linux-firmware (Ubuntu Kinetic)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: linux-firmware (Ubuntu Jammy)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: linux-firmware (Ubuntu Jammy)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: linux-firmware (Ubuntu Kinetic)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Description changed:
+ [Impact]
+
1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System ->
About Ubuntu
22.04.1 LTS
2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy pkgname'
or by checking in Software Center
20220329.git681281e40ubuntu3.4
3) What you expected to happen
Linux Firmware would include meson vdec blobs
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/meson/vdec
4) What happened instead
Linux Firmware does not include meson vdec blobs
+
+ [Test case]
+
+ Load meson-vdec driver on HW that supports it and watch firmware load
+ failure.
+
+ [Fix]
+
+ Include firmware blobs.
+
+ [Where Problems Could Occur]
+
+ This only affects very specific HW. And the blobs have shipped in older
+ series but were dropped incorrectly in Jammy.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1986743
Title:
REQUEST add meson vdec firmware to arm64 linux-firmware package
Status in linux-firmware package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in linux-firmware source package in Jammy:
Confirmed
Status in linux-firmware source package in Kinetic:
Confirmed
Bug description:
[Impact]
1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System ->
About Ubuntu
22.04.1 LTS
2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy pkgname'
or by checking in Software Center
20220329.git681281e40ubuntu3.4
3) What you expected to happen
Linux Firmware would include meson vdec blobs
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/meson/vdec
4) What happened instead
Linux Firmware does not include meson vdec blobs
[Test case]
Load meson-vdec driver on HW that supports it and watch firmware load
failure.
[Fix]
Include firmware blobs.
[Where Problems Could Occur]
This only affects very specific HW. And the blobs have shipped in
older series but were dropped incorrectly in Jammy.
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