Re: [External] Re: Intel SOF audio firmware packaging
On 08/12/2020 04:43, Hector Oron wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 09:47, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> wrote:
>>
>> Quoting Mark Pearson (2020-12-08 04:18:20)
>>> On 07/12/2020 21:19, Paul Wise wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 1:58 PM Mark Pearson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'd like to solve the lack of Intel SOF audio firmware
>>>>
>>>> IIRC the Debian kernel team were planning on adding those to the
>>>> linux-firmware.git packaging.
>>>>
>>> If that is happening that sounds good to me and quite sensible. Can you
>>> point me at who is working on that so I can find out the details?
>>>
>>> I did do a search before starting on this but didn't find anything - but
>>> it would be an easy thing to miss :)
>>
>> Try file a bugreport against firmware-linux-nonfree - more infor do ding
>> that is here: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
>
> A bug was created for new package - https://bugs.debian.org/960788
>
That's the bug I raised after your kind recommendations :)
> I studied the different options time ago, Fedora ships it's own
> separate package, Ubuntu merges it into firmware-linux-nonfree,
> firmware could also be built but dependencies would be hard to
> package/maintain - as I understood - those need a forked xtensa
> compiler.
>From my point of view (admittedly limited) there is limited benefit to
building your own unsigned firmware as it won't load on our systems.
I was focusing (selfishly) on the intel-signed firmware and it being a
non-free repository. I'm hoping that's not a big sticking point....
>
> As I understood Maks was given a laptop by Lenovo to test the update
> and he was going to package sof firmware within firmware-linux-nonfree
> - which apparently has not happened yet.
I don't want to make a big deal out of this, I fully appreciate that
everybody has their own priorities and things going on. 2020 has been a
bit of a basketcase of a year! However, Maks has stopped replying to my
emails and so I'm writing that particular exercise off as a failure at
this point.
I figured that I would have a go at packaging myself - see what was
involved. If what I've done is complete nonsense and useless, that's
fine - if someone can point out what is wrong I'll try and fix it.
If someone else already has this in hand and I can support that let me know.
If what I've done is enough to get someone more competent started that
would be awesome too. I'd like to be involved and help out as a learning
exercise but don't want to get in the way.
I honestly don't mind what happens next. My aim is to get Debian working
on Lenovo platforms and SOF firmware is currently by far and away the
biggest blocker. I had a quiet evening last week so figured I would play
with it and see where it led. I have no expectations at this point -
this is just me having some fun and learning something new.
>
> If we want to support these laptops in bullseye we need to ship such firmware.
>
> Regards
>
Thanks
Mark
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