Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> (2025-05-20): > If we want to fix this, possible options include: > - always queue firmware-sof-signed for installation in the target > system even if it not needed by audio devices; > - delete firmware-sof-signed firmware files when the installer does > not need them any more (after audio drivers are loaded and sound is > working). If an audio device needs them, then hw-detect should > detect it and queue firmware-sof-signed for installation in the > target system. Yeah, that matches my conclusion as well. I'm not sure (don't remember, don't want to dig) if the current suboptimal situation was already known at the time those files got included in this way, or if we missed it entirely… but the current status doesn't seem entirely unacceptable to me. Anyway, *if* we wanted to fix this… The latter would seem preferrable, if we managed to have some kind of reliable way to assess the situation. The former is a big(ger) hammer, and if the sound worked fine during installation, sticking to the loose files that were copied shouldn't be much of an issue (at least feature-wise, not sure about possible security fixes over time). I'd rather not move in that direction unless we need to, esp. if we end up having other sound firmware packages added alongside firmware-sof-signed… Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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