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issues with initramfs after recently updating buster



administrivia: I'm not subscribed to debian-user (but will check the list for 
answers in any case). CCs to me are fine (even appreciated!).


Today I saw the following errors on one of the machines (an HP EliteBook 
laptop) that I upgraded today:

Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.133+deb10u1) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-5-amd64
cryptsetup: WARNING: The initramfs image may not contain cryptsetup binaries 
    nor crypto modules. If that's on purpose, you may want to uninstall the 
    'cryptsetup-initramfs' package in order to disable the cryptsetup 
initramfs 
    integration and avoid this warning.
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/bxt_dmc_ver1_07.bin for module 
i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/skl_dmc_ver1_27.bin for module 
i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin for module 
i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/cnl_dmc_ver1_07.bin for module 
i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/glk_dmc_ver1_04.bin for module 
i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/kbl_guc_ver9_39.bin for module 
i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/bxt_guc_ver9_29.bin for module 
i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/skl_guc_ver9_33.bin for module 
i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/kbl_huc_ver02_00_1810.bin for 
module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/bxt_huc_ver01_07_1398.bin for 
module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/skl_huc_ver01_07_1398.bin for 
module i915

I saw messages similar to the Possible missing firmware lines at the end while 
upgrading a Dell Inspiron laptop (also running buster) I upgraded earlier in 
the day. Unfortunately on that other machine I didn't save the output from the 
end of 'apt-get upgrade', though I'm quite certain the end of each line 
mentioned "module amdgpu" (or perhaps "module gpuamd"?).

So I have two questions. On the HP laptop I do use cryptsetup (because it's 
older and I originally ran stretch on that machine -- only my homedir is 
encrypted (not the entire LV as is the Dell laptop, which is newer and got a 
virgin buster install recently). Is there anything I need to do in order to 
make sure that I don't lose support for cryptsetup with a new kernel on the HP 
laptop?

My 2nd question is about the missing firmware. How do I get modules i915 and
amdgpu so that my initramfs will be fully functional on these laptops (i'm fine 
with installing nonfree packages). 

If there's more information anyone needs to diagnose any of this, please feel 
free to ask.

On one laptop (the HP), when I try to run 'apt-get upgrade' again, the 
following message appears:

The following packages have been kept back:
  linux-headers-amd64 linux-image-amd64


On the other laptop (the Dell), 'apt-get upgrade' produces output that 
indicates that only linux-image-amd64 has been kept back.

Thank you so very much in advance for any information.

And as always, thanks tons for the most excellent OS on the planet,
     ~e



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