Bug#833355: Please package new upstream version with ucode files for Intel Wireless 8260

[Jonas Meurer <jonas@freesources.org>]

Package: firmware-iwlwifi
Version: 20160110-1
Severity: important

Hello,

for the Intel Wireless 8260 controller, several ucode files are missing,
that are published upstream:

# lspci -v -s 04:00.0
04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 (rev 3a)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 126
        Memory at f1000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [40] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
        Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 44-85-00-ff-ff-12-53-bd
        Capabilities: [14c] Latency Tolerance Reporting
        Capabilities: [154] L1 PM Substates
        Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
        Kernel modules: iwlwifi

# dmesg |grep iwlwifi
[   21.639144] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-8000C-21.ucode (-2)
[   21.639149] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-8000C-21.ucode failed with error -2
[   21.639159] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-8000C-20.ucode (-2)
[   21.639162] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-8000C-20.ucode failed with error -2
[   21.639169] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-8000C-19.ucode (-2)
[   21.639176] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-8000C-19.ucode failed with error -2
[   21.639184] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-8000C-18.ucode (-2)
[   21.639190] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-8000C-18.ucode failed with error -2
[   21.639197] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-8000C-17.ucode (-2)
[   21.639203] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-8000C-17.ucode failed with error -2
[   21.639458] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Unsupported splx structure
[   21.645714] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware iwlwifi-8000C-16.ucode
[   21.646255] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: loaded firmware version 16.242414.0 op_mode iwlmvm

# cat /proc/version
Linux version 4.6.0-1-amd64 (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Debian 5.4.0-6) ) #1 SMP Debian 4.6.4-1 (2016-07-18)

The missing ucode files are distributed upstream at
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/linux-firmware.git/tree/

Greetings,
 jonas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

firmware-iwlwifi depends on no packages.

firmware-iwlwifi recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firmware-iwlwifi suggests:
ii  initramfs-tools  0.125

-- no debconf information