Bug#935969: linux-image-5.2.0-2-amd64: Missing firmware for new driver rtwpci
On 2019-12-22 11:27:25, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + pending
>
> Hi Andrea,
>
> On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 08:46:42AM +0100, Andrea Palazzi wrote:
> > Package: firmware-realtek
> > Version: 20190717-2
> > Followup-For: Bug #935969
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > What's keeping this bug from being fixed, given that there's a patch available?
> > Is there something that I can do to help?
> >
> > Also, shouldn't it be an important bug, since it makes unusable the wifi in
> > systems with boars using the rtw88 firmware?
>
> It would need a slightly different approach, because the rules.gen is
> generated. Sjoerd Simons proposed the changes in
> https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/firmware-nonfree/merge_requests/10
> .
>
> The packaging itself needs more changes to be finalized, but the
> support is now commited.
That's great to hear, but any chance of uploading a -3 version? This is
still broken for such devices (and thus prevents using a backported
kernel, for example).
thanks,
iustin
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