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.
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?
With kind regards, Roland Clobus
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