Bug#823637: firmware-nonfree: please add a firmware-nvidia-graphics package
Control: reassign 839139 src:firmware-nonfree
Control: severity -1 important
Control: merge -1 839139
Control: tags -1 patch
On 2016-05-06 23:23 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Source: firmware-nonfree
> Version: 20160110-1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Starting with the Maxwell GM20x generation[1], NVidia graphics cards
> require signed firmware for most operations, the Nouveau driver does not
> provide acceleration without the firmware.
>
> In February 2016, NVidia finally made the firmware available in the
> linux-firmware git repository, and with Linux 4.6 and Mesa 11.2 (both
> currently in experimental) users should be able to get acceptable
> performance out of their expensive cards without having to resort to the
> proprietary driver.
This really ought to be fixed, as these cards have become very common
and users are complaining (see #839139). The second of the attached
patches creates a new firmware-nvidia-graphics package with the firmware
files for Maxwell and Pascal chips. While I still don't have the
hardware to test the package, at least update-initramfs no longer warns
about missing firmware when nouveau is included in
/etc/initramfs-tools/modules.
The new package currently is slightly under 60 kilobytes, and it would
certainly also be possible to put the files into the
firmware-misc-nonfree catch-all package (the Tegra firmware is already
there). However, more NVidia firmware is probably going to be released
in the future, so a separate package makes sense to me.
In any case, the first of the two attached patches fixes a problem in
debian/rules.real where 'ln' would fail because a target directory does
not exist.
Thanks for consideration,
Sven
>From f5e3018be836ce90e1c2977adb7555d9743d0702 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 12:58:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Ensure that target directory for symbolic links exists
If a directory contains only symlinks and no regular files, as in the
case of nvidia/gm204/acr/, installing the symlink would fail:
ln -s ../../gm200/acr/ucode_unload.bin debian/firmware-nvidia-graphics/lib/firmware/nvidia/gm204/acr/ucode_unload.bin
ln: failed to create symbolic link 'debian/firmware-nvidia-graphics/lib/firmware/nvidia/gm204/acr/ucode_unload.bin': No such file or directory
debian/rules.real:13: recipe for target 'install' failed
---
debian/rules.real | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/debian/rules.real b/debian/rules.real
index 1def0e3..b0490d6 100644
--- a/debian/rules.real
+++ b/debian/rules.real
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ install:
@for i in $(LINKS); do \
link=debian/$(PACKAGE_NAME)/lib/firmware/"$${i%:*}"; \
target="$${i#*:}"; \
+ install -d "$${link%/*}"; \
echo ln -s "$$target" "$$link"; \
ln -s "$$target" "$$link"; \
done
--
2.9.3
>From 208ed145066f2394dd0e9ed38bce81971625d3ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 10:44:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add an nvidia-graphics-firmware package
---
debian/config/defines | 1 +
debian/config/nvidia-graphics/LICENSE | 130 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
debian/config/nvidia-graphics/defines | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 207 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 debian/config/nvidia-graphics/LICENSE
create mode 100644 debian/config/nvidia-graphics/defines
diff --git a/debian/config/defines b/debian/config/defines
index 713a491..15d857e 100644
--- a/debian/config/defines
+++ b/debian/config/defines
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ packages:
misc-nonfree
myricom
netxen
+ nvidia-graphics
qlogic
realtek
samsung
diff --git a/debian/config/nvidia-graphics/LICENSE b/debian/config/nvidia-graphics/LICENSE
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6dfb2aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/config/nvidia-graphics/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+Files: nvidia/*
+Copyright:
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diff --git a/debian/config/nvidia-graphics/defines b/debian/config/nvidia-graphics/defines
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1c6fac7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/config/nvidia-graphics/defines
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+[base]
+desc: NVIDIA graphics chips
+longdesc: NVIDIA Maxwell and Pascal graphics chips supported by the nouveau driver
+files:
+ nvidia/gm200/acr/bl.bin
+ nvidia/gm200/acr/ucode_load.bin
+ nvidia/gm200/acr/ucode_unload.bin
+ nvidia/gm200/gr/fecs_bl.bin
+ nvidia/gm200/gr/fecs_data.bin
+ nvidia/gm200/gr/fecs_inst.bin
+ nvidia/gm200/gr/fecs_sig.bin
+ nvidia/gm200/gr/gpccs_bl.bin
+ nvidia/gm200/gr/gpccs_data.bin
+ nvidia/gm200/gr/gpccs_inst.bin
+ nvidia/gm200/gr/gpccs_sig.bin
+ nvidia/gm200/gr/sw_bundle_init.bin
+ nvidia/gm200/gr/sw_ctx.bin
+ nvidia/gm200/gr/sw_method_init.bin
+ nvidia/gm200/gr/sw_nonctx.bin
+ nvidia/gm204/acr/bl.bin
+ nvidia/gm204/acr/ucode_load.bin
+ nvidia/gm204/acr/ucode_unload.bin
+ nvidia/gm204/gr/fecs_bl.bin
+ nvidia/gm204/gr/fecs_data.bin
+ nvidia/gm204/gr/fecs_inst.bin
+ nvidia/gm204/gr/fecs_sig.bin
+ nvidia/gm204/gr/gpccs_bl.bin
+ nvidia/gm204/gr/gpccs_data.bin
+ nvidia/gm204/gr/gpccs_inst.bin
+ nvidia/gm204/gr/gpccs_sig.bin
+ nvidia/gm204/gr/sw_bundle_init.bin
+ nvidia/gm204/gr/sw_ctx.bin
+ nvidia/gm204/gr/sw_method_init.bin
+ nvidia/gm204/gr/sw_nonctx.bin
+ nvidia/gm206/acr/bl.bin
+ nvidia/gm206/acr/ucode_load.bin
+ nvidia/gm206/acr/ucode_unload.bin
+ nvidia/gm206/gr/fecs_bl.bin
+ nvidia/gm206/gr/fecs_data.bin
+ nvidia/gm206/gr/fecs_inst.bin
+ nvidia/gm206/gr/fecs_sig.bin
+ nvidia/gm206/gr/gpccs_bl.bin
+ nvidia/gm206/gr/gpccs_data.bin
+ nvidia/gm206/gr/gpccs_inst.bin
+ nvidia/gm206/gr/gpccs_sig.bin
+ nvidia/gm206/gr/sw_bundle_init.bin
+ nvidia/gm206/gr/sw_ctx.bin
+ nvidia/gm206/gr/sw_method_init.bin
+ nvidia/gm206/gr/sw_nonctx.bin
+ nvidia/gm20b/acr/bl.bin
+ nvidia/gm20b/acr/ucode_load.bin
+ nvidia/gm20b/gr/fecs_bl.bin
+ nvidia/gm20b/gr/fecs_data.bin
+ nvidia/gm20b/gr/fecs_inst.bin
+ nvidia/gm20b/gr/fecs_sig.bin
+ nvidia/gm20b/gr/gpccs_data.bin
+ nvidia/gm20b/gr/gpccs_inst.bin
+ nvidia/gm20b/gr/sw_bundle_init.bin
+ nvidia/gm20b/gr/sw_ctx.bin
+ nvidia/gm20b/gr/sw_method_init.bin
+ nvidia/gm20b/gr/sw_nonctx.bin
+ nvidia/gp100/acr/bl.bin
+ nvidia/gp100/acr/ucode_load.bin
+ nvidia/gp100/acr/ucode_unload.bin
+ nvidia/gp100/gr/fecs_bl.bin
+ nvidia/gp100/gr/fecs_data.bin
+ nvidia/gp100/gr/fecs_inst.bin
+ nvidia/gp100/gr/fecs_sig.bin
+ nvidia/gp100/gr/gpccs_bl.bin
+ nvidia/gp100/gr/gpccs_data.bin
+ nvidia/gp100/gr/gpccs_inst.bin
+ nvidia/gp100/gr/gpccs_sig.bin
+ nvidia/gp100/gr/sw_bundle_init.bin
+ nvidia/gp100/gr/sw_ctx.bin
+ nvidia/gp100/gr/sw_method_init.bin
+ nvidia/gp100/gr/sw_nonctx.bin
--
2.9.3
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