Re: Lenovo Thinkpad P16s Gen3 espeakup support (Was: Heads-up: please look at the proposed fix, Was: No speech in the alpha Installer, and speech freeze in Bookworm)

[Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>]

Hi,

Roland Clobus <rclobus@rclobus.nl> (2025-05-24):
> When loading the i915 module, it requests several firmware files from
> firmware-intel-graphics (mtl_dmc.bin, mtl_guc_70.bin, mtl_huc_gsc.bin,
> mtl_gsc_1.bin). It turn out that these firmware files are not required
> for the espeakup module (even though dmesg complains about them)

Great news, thanks! The complaining and/or modalias-based stuff will
have d-i pick them up later on anyway.

(I'm leaving the question around firmware-intel-sound's metadata for
later.)

> So overall we (only) need 5 additional kernel modules: i915,
> drm_buddy, drm_display_helper, cec, rc-core

Re-used/adapted some logic in debian-installer.git, see speech-support
branch (the commit message sucks, and at least that would need some
editing before merging into master).

See kibi/for-master for the debian-cd side (patch 2/3 compared to
current master).

Test image:
  https://people.debian.org/~kibi/bug-1092977+intel/

(also contains partman-crypto fun, unrelated, but one build/stone, two
bugs/birds, right?)

I've at least confirmed I can `modprobe i915` manually…


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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