On Wed, Dec 25, 2024 at 1:32 AM Cyril Brulebois <[email protected]> wrote: > > Daniel Lewart <[email protected]> (2024-12-24): > > I hope this can be resolved for Trixie. > > > > Patch attached. Tested with QEMU. > > Thanks, but that doesn't look appropriate: this disables not just CPU > microcode but also modalias-based firmware lookup entirely…
Revised patch attached. Thank you! Daniel Lewart Urbana, Illinois
diff -ru a/hw-detect.post-base-installer.d/50install-firmware b/hw-detect.post-base-installer.d/50install-firmware --- a/hw-detect.post-base-installer.d/50install-firmware 2023-05-09 15:01:46.000000000 -0500 +++ b/hw-detect.post-base-installer.d/50install-firmware 2024-12-27 00:00:00.000000000 -0600 @@ -48,20 +48,25 @@ fi done -# Check whether microcode packages are desirable, based on CPU vendor. -# Only detect and queue installation: they aren't needed in the -# installer context, and they cannot be deployed via `dpkg -i` by the -# install-firmware hook due their dependencies; let the finish-install -# hook handle them instead. Note the component hardcoding. -printf "GenuineIntel intel-microcode\nAuthenticAMD amd64-microcode\n" | while read vendor pkg; do - if grep -qs "^vendor_id.*$vendor$" /proc/cpuinfo; then - log "queuing $pkg installation ($vendor)" - echo $pkg >> /tmp/microcode.list - mkdir -p /var/cache/firmware - echo non-free-firmware >> /var/cache/firmware/components - echo "$pkg non-free-firmware cpu" >> /var/log/firmware-summary - fi -done +if chroot /target systemd-detect-virt --quiet; then + virt=$(chroot /target systemd-detect-virt) + log "detected virtualization '$virt', CPU microcode packages not installed" +else + # Check whether microcode packages are desirable, based on CPU vendor. + # Only detect and queue installation: they aren't needed in the + # installer context, and they cannot be deployed via `dpkg -i` by the + # install-firmware hook due their dependencies; let the finish-install + # hook handle them instead. Note the component hardcoding. + printf "GenuineIntel intel-microcode\nAuthenticAMD amd64-microcode\n" | while read vendor pkg; do + if grep -qs "^vendor_id.*$vendor$" /proc/cpuinfo; then + log "queuing $pkg installation ($vendor)" + echo $pkg >> /tmp/microcode.list + mkdir -p /var/cache/firmware + echo non-free-firmware >> /var/cache/firmware/components + echo "$pkg non-free-firmware cpu" >> /var/log/firmware-summary + fi + done +fi # enable components based on firmware packages that were installed: if [ -d /var/cache/firmware ]; then
