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Package: hw-detect
Version: 1.146
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-cd@lists.debian.org
I hadn't seen the following when test-installing in loops, since I was
using a netboot-gtk image, but this can be seen with a regular netinst
image produced by debian-cd, since the d-i image used there is slightly
different. I fear this is going to be a rather common annoyance, so I'd
like to get that fixed before the Bullseye release (either in D-I
Bullseye RC3 or in the final D-I release).
On this Dell G3, right after selecting locale settings, cdrom-detect
kicks in and tries to find the installation image to load. Doing so, it
calls hw-detect with this (two occurrences):
hw-detect cdrom-detect/detect_progress_title || true
which iso-scan can also do (one occurrence):
hw-detect iso-scan/detect_progress_title || true
At the bottom of hw-detect, there's a check-missing-firmware call, which
can trigger errors and prompts about irrelevant firmware files, e.g.:
intel/sof/sof-cml.ri
(which is about sound support, see firmware-sof-signed.)
While I'm not entirely certain about use-cases around iso-scan, I would
think cdrom-detect should be one of the very few first things to happen
on a system, and that raising errors because of missing firmware files
at this stage wouldn't help: even a firmware-enabled image wouldn't be
mounted and firmware packages wouldn't be available (later, they show up
at /cdrom/firmware).
Therefore, I'm proposing:
1. Implement support for an environment variable in hw-detect, that
would disable the check-missing-firmware call.
2. Set this variable for both hw-detect calls in cdrom-detect's
postinst. [This should fix the problem I'm seeing.]
3. Set this variable for the hw-detect call in iso-scan's postinst.
[Optional, I'm not sure what people are doing before iso-scan kicks
in; maybe some firmware-holding block devices could be available at
this stage, so letting the missing firmware detection in place might
make sense in this case.]
For the avoidance of doubt, hw-detect is called in many places, later
for networking devices and for disks; those are much more likely to
require some firmware files to be available…
Cheers,
--
Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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Source: cdrom-detect
Source-Version: 1.98
Done: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
cdrom-detect, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 991587@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (supplier of updated cdrom-detect package)
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Hash: SHA512
Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 09:14:55 +0200
Source: cdrom-detect
Architecture: source
Version: 1.98
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Closes: 991587
Changes:
cdrom-detect (1.98) unstable; urgency=medium
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* Set CHECK_MISSING_FIRMWARE=0 when calling hw-detect. Detecting the
installation image happens very early in the installation process, and
it's unlikely to require some firmware to access whatever device holds
it (and in the case of an unofficial firmware-enabled image, firmware
packages would be inside the ISO, that hasn't been mounted yet). This
can avoid prompts about missing firmware files for e.g. sound modules
(like Intel SOF) early in the installation process (Closes: #991587).
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