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Bug#740499: marked as done (debian-installer: firmware-7.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso missing broadcom firmware)

Your message dated Tue, 31 Aug 2021 20:07:31 +0200
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and subject line Re: why doesn't d-i include firmware-b43-installer and firmware-b43legacy-installer?
has caused the Debian Bug report #740499,
regarding debian-installer: firmware-7.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso missing broadcom firmware
to be marked as done.

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Package: debian-installer
Version: firmware-7.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch06s04.html.en says
"Alternatively, unofficial CD builds containing non-free firmware can be
found at
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/.";

And https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware says "Alternatively, there are now
versions of the "netinst" CD images that also include all the non-free
firmware packages directly"

Both these extracts infer that all the non-free firmware is in the
firmware image, but firmware-7.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso does not contain
Broadcom firmware (at least not b43). This firmware should be added to
the CD, or the documentation should mention that unofficial builds don't
contain *all* firmware. It's a waste of the user's time to download an
installer that claims to have non-free firmware and then find the
non-free firmware they need is missing.

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Hi,

Tomas Pospisek <tpo@sourcepole.ch> wrote (Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:13:20 +0200 (CEST)):
> In #740499 Chris Bainbridge writes that:
> 
> > [...] but firmware-7.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso does not contain
> > Broadcom firmware (at least not b43).
> 
> I can see that there are firmware packages for Broadcom b43 in contrib:
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=bullseye&section=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=firmware-b
> 
> Could anybody in the known comment why those firmware packages are not 
> included in the non-free installer images? Is there anything preventing 
> their inclusion? Or asked in a different way: could they be included so 
> the Debian installer supports the users with that hardware?

As the name says, this packages do not contain the firmware itself, but only
a firmware-installer tool.
To get the firmware, you need to run this tool, and the firmware gets loaded
via some internet source.

Because of this behaviour, the installer cannot do this automatically, so the
user needs to do this anyway by hand.
And he needs to have internet access for this, to get the firmware.

So it's pointless, if these packages are included in the image or not.

Thus closing this bug


Holger


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