Re: Updates to linux-firmware
Hi Ben,
On Tue, Jul 16, 2024, at 9:20 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2024-04-26 at 14:35 -0400, Mark Pearson wrote:
>> Hi Didier & Ben,
>>
>> I hope all is well.
>> I wanted to check in with you guys, as with the new 2024 platforms coming out there are some updates to linux-firmware - for CPU, GPU, Wifi, Bluetooth, etc devices
>>
>> I checked and it looked like firmware-nonfree and it hadn't been updated since last year - and I wondered if that is something I can help with? I'd like to make sure the Debian experience on this years platforms is good out-of-the-box.
>>
>> Let me know if that would be helpful, and any pointers on how best to contribute and be useful
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> Sorry for not responding to this earlier.
>
> I've finally uploaded an update to (nearly) the current version. This
> incorporates some of Diederik's work, but I also made changes that
> should reduce the amount of manual effort required for future updates.
>
No worries, and big thank you to both of you for all your hard work on this. Very much appreciated and I will do some testing of the latest to confirm it works. As an aside, it was useful and interesting to look into the repositories and see what was involved.
I did at one point take a stab at looking what would be involved to help with updates but backed off until the current updates have gone through.
With that done, I'm very happy to try and help with updates going forward. I know that for many people in the Debian community that dealing with non-free FW is not much fun or interest :)
I will give it a go in the future, but do feel free to ping me if you're looking for a pair of hands to do some work on this.
Hope you get to enjoy Korea :)
Mark
> Ben.
>
>> Thanks
>> Mark
>>
>> PS - in case anyone notices, I've mothballed my old markpearson@lenovo.com address because the Lenovo outlook servers there became horribly unusable. I am using my personal domain for open source collaboration instead.
>> I still have access to that address (if anybody wants to check I am who I say I am) and am still employed at Lenovo (if that makes any difference to anything)
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