Re: Firmware and libva2 backports

[Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org>]

On 2022-04-21 16:51:22, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> Hi Roger,
> 
> A user has requested a bullseye backport of firmware-iwlwifi
> (firmware-nonfree), and I'm wondering if you'd like to resume your work
> for this release cycle.
> 
> Hi Sebastian, Brandon, and Reinhard,
> 
> Would any of you like to maintain a backport of the libdrm,
> intel-vaapi-driver, and libva2 stack?  I'm a Multimedia Team member who
> has maintained bpos of these in the past.  Also, please see my note
> below and comment if that's something you don't want to see in the
> package in sid (since dependencies should ideally be tightened in sid
> rather than in bullseye-backports).
> 
> Vuk Mirovic <contact@vukmirovic.org> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >  
> > Debian backports provide newer kernels but there are no newer firmware that should go hand-in-hand, I use Debian on somewhat new hardware and had to install newer kernel from backports,
> > but I needed newer firmware as well (firmware-iwlwifi particularly) to fix instability with Intel Bluetooth and I did this by adding testing repo, it would be nice if testing firmware is available in
> > backports as well.
> >
> 
> I'll leave this one to someone else.
> 
> > Another thing that would be nice to have in backports is newer libva2 (and related packages libva-drm2, libva-wayland2, libva-x11-2). VAAPI hardware accelerated video decoding is not working in
> > latest Chromium based browsers like Chrome, Brave with libva2 from stable, libva2 from testing works but it pulls libc upgrade and creates FrankenDebian.
> >  
> 
> I've done this one in past releases.  In addition to libva2, it needs
> intel-vaapi-driver, and also libdrm.  Finally, I seem to remember that I
> experienced graphics corruption on my system unless I tightened the
> dependencies so that these three packages built against the versions in
> backports rather than in stable.

Also don't forget to backport intel-gmmlib and intel-media-driver.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher