Bug#515264: add note about missing firmware
Hello, On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 01:29:10PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: The kernel now doesn't contain a number of firmware pieces anymore which may be essential to get the system in a workable state after reboot. Unfortunately this was missed in the release notes. The following patch adds a note which refers people to the relevant section of the installation manual that explains it better. I hope it can be applied quickly, sorry for not catching this earlier. The patch could be extended to include a list of such removed firmwares if someone has it available, but just this mention could already save a significant number of problems. Thanks for the patch. It is now applied to the release notes. In your bug report you mention a list of firmware. Do you think it is possible to make such list? Otherwise, I will just close the bug. Thanks in advance, -- Nekral -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#515264: add note about missing firmware
Hello Thijs, On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 09:49:30PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote: In your bug report you mention a list of firmware. Do you think it is possible to make such list? I've seen this in the installation guide: The following overview should list most available firmware packages but is not guaranteed to be complete and may also contain non-firmware packages: * http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=firmware Would you recommend this for addition in the release notes? Thanks in advance, -- Nekral -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#515264: add note about missing firmware
Package: release-notes Tags: patch Hi, The kernel now doesn't contain a number of firmware pieces anymore which may be essential to get the system in a workable state after reboot. Unfortunately this was missed in the release notes. The following patch adds a note which refers people to the relevant section of the installation manual that explains it better. I hope it can be applied quickly, sorry for not catching this earlier. The patch could be extended to include a list of such removed firmwares if someone has it available, but just this mention could already save a significant number of problems. thanks, Thijs Index: whats-new.dbk === --- whats-new.dbk (revision 6576) +++ whats-new.dbk (working copy) @@ -537,6 +537,20 @@ titleChanges in kernel packaging/title variablelist varlistentry +termBinary firmware for some drivers moved to non-free/term +listitem +paraSome drivers load binary firmware into the device they're +supporting at run time. While this firmware was included in the +stock kernel in previous releases, it has now be separately +packaged in the non-free section. If you want to continue to +use these devices after reboot, make sure the required firmware +is present on the installed system. See section 6.4 of the +ulink url=url-install-manual;Installation +Manual/ulink for details. +/para +/listitem +/varlistentry +varlistentry termNew OpenVZindextermprimaryOpenVZ/primary/indexterm kernel flavor/term listitem para signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
