Package: hw-detect Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Hi, Both of those *-microcode packages are featured in my initial list of firmware packages that I found interesting to move from non-free to non-free-firmware: https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2023/01/msg00150.html Henrique (in X-D-Cc) is fine with the proposed move, even if that hasn't happened yet (and I won't consider this a blocker for the upcoming D-I release): https://salsa.debian.org/hmh/amd64-microcode/-/merge_requests/3 https://salsa.debian.org/hmh/intel-microcode/-/merge_requests/2 That being said, contrary to other firmware packages: - we are not going to see log lines in dmesg to tell us that firmware loading failed, so we won't try and find firmware packages shipping those missing files (via check-missing-firmware); - they don't ship appstream metadata which would give us hints about hardware that could benefit from firmware packages, even without log lines in dmesg (via 50install-firmware, post-base-installer). We could probably implement specific detection in hw-detect to install those packages anyway (alternatively, maybe discover but nothing's been happening there for a while anyway). Should we? Various topics if we wanted to implement that: - Those are not needed during the installation, so installing them as soon as possible is not required, contrary to regular firmware packages; queueing their installation would be sufficient, along with enabling non-free-firmware (apt-setup/non-free-firmware). - Those have dependencies, so dpkg -i wouldn't fly and something like `in-target apt-get` should be used instead): https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/hw-detect/-/commit/c876e43039 - intel-microcode requires iucode-tool, currently in contrib, but Henrique is fine with moving it to main: https://salsa.debian.org/hmh/intel-microcode/-/merge_requests/2 - What would be the best way to perform detection? That, along with the move of those 3 packages between sections, is not something I consider a blocker for the upcoming D-I release, or even for the first Bookworm release. Just something that seems nice to have, if we want to. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois ([email protected]) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
