Re: W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/brand/yada*
Sven Joachim composed on 2023-04-29 09:02 (UTC+0200):
> On 2023-04-28 21:30 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
>> # inxi -Gxx
>> Graphics:
>> Device-1: Intel 82Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics vendor: Dell driver: i915
>> v: kernel arch: Gen-4 ports: active: DVI-D-1 empty: VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
>> chip-ID: 8086:2992 # aka ancient
>> # grep MODULES /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
>> # MODULES: [ most | netboot | dep | list ]
>> MODULES=dep
>> #
>> These many per transaction $SUBJECT initrd construction messages have been routine
>> for a long time in Bullseye and Bookworm regardless of active GPU installed, and
>> whether or not a firmware-brand-graphics .deb exists and is installed
>> for it.
> It would be useful to give an example of these messages, as well as a
> list of firmware packages you have installed.
https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=156340 shows same thing, and reports
problem is old and unfixable.
Apparently it must only happen with certain CPU/GPU families, which is why it took
a while for me to notice.
>> Is there something that can be done to avoid this screen and log
>> litter?
> Install the package that contains the firmware files. For Intel and
> NVidia graphics that is firmware-misc-nonfree, for AMD it is
> firmware-amd-graphics.
>> Can anyone
>> point to an existing meta-bug report on the subject of stopping the litter?
>> Searching seems to find only reports pointing to particular GPUs, e.g.
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1016286
> It's the same for any GPUs, as well as for other hardware. The
> update-initramfs script runs modinfo(8) to find out which firmware files
> a loaded module might request and issues a warning for any such file
> which is not there. You can check the code for yourself[1].
> 1. https://sources.debian.org/src/initramfs-tools/0.142/hook-functions/#L109
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