Control: severity -1 serious On 09 Nov 2022 13:10:46 +0100 Diederik de Haas <didi.deb...@cknow.org> wrote: > Package: raspi-firmware > Severity: normal > > I completely agree that firmware-brcm80211 is the right place and > raspi-firmware is the wrong place as this is about firmware for wifi > devices which are f.e. also used on Pine64 devices. > > AFAIK the package also makes assumptions about being run > *on* a RPi (with a /boot/firmware dir?), so it may even fail > installation on non-RPi devices.
There are a number of Pine64 devices which need the various files shipped by raspi-firmware in the `/lib/firmware/brcm` directory. I've now tried to install this package on both a Rock64 and a Quartz64 Model A and the installation indeed failed: ```sh root@cs21:~# aptitude install raspi-firmware The following NEW packages will be installed: raspi-firmware 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 4,816 kB of archives. After unpacking 22.8 MB will be used. Get: 1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/non-free-firmware arm64 raspi-firmware all 1.20220830+ds-1 [4,816 kB] Fetched 4,816 kB in 0s (23.7 MB/s) Selecting previously unselected package raspi-firmware. (Reading database ... 51676 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../raspi-firmware_1.20220830+ds-1_all.deb ... Unpacking raspi-firmware (1.20220830+ds-1) ... Setting up raspi-firmware (1.20220830+ds-1) ... Error: missing /boot/firmware, did you forget to mount it? dpkg: error processing package raspi-firmware (--configure): installed raspi-firmware package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.142) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-7-arm64 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rockchip/dptx.bin for module rockchipdrm I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sda2 I: (UUID=f9b86b70-965a-4079-948c-02dd4d016680) I: Set the RESUME variable to override this. raspi-firmware: missing /boot/firmware, did you forget to mount it? run-parts: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//z50-raspi-firmware exited with return code 1 dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure): installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: raspi-firmware initramfs-tools [master ae75cb4] committing changes in /etc made by "aptitude install raspi-firmware" 5 files changed, 366 insertions(+) create mode 100644 default/raspi-firmware create mode 100755 initramfs/post-update.d/z50-raspi-firmware create mode 100755 kernel/postinst.d/z50-raspi-firmware create mode 100755 kernel/postrm.d/z50-raspi-firmware E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Setting up initramfs-tools (0.142) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Setting up raspi-firmware (1.20220830+ds-1) ... Error: missing /boot/firmware, did you forget to mount it? dpkg: error processing package raspi-firmware (--configure): installed raspi-firmware package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.142) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-7-arm64 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rockchip/dptx.bin for module rockchipdrm I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sda2 I: (UUID=f9b86b70-965a-4079-948c-02dd4d016680) I: Set the RESUME variable to override this. raspi-firmware: missing /boot/firmware, did you forget to mount it? run-parts: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//z50-raspi-firmware exited with return code 1 dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure): installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: raspi-firmware initramfs-tools root@cs21:~# aptitude purge linux-image-6.1.0-6-arm64 The following packages will be REMOVED: linux-image-6.1.0-6-arm64{p} The following partially installed packages will be configured: initramfs-tools raspi-firmware 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 486 MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] (Reading database ... 51710 files and directories currently installed.) Removing linux-image-6.1.0-6-arm64 (6.1.15-1) ... I: /vmlinuz.old is now a symlink to boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-7-arm64 I: /initrd.img.old is now a symlink to boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-7-arm64 /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools: update-initramfs: Deleting /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-6-arm64 /etc/kernel/postrm.d/z50-raspi-firmware: raspi-firmware: missing /boot/firmware, did you forget to mount it? run-parts: /etc/kernel/postrm.d/z50-raspi-firmware exited with return code 1 dpkg: error processing package linux-image-6.1.0-6-arm64 (--remove): installed linux-image-6.1.0-6-arm64 package post-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1 dpkg: too many errors, stopping Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-6.1.0-6-arm64 Processing was halted because there were too many errors. E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Setting up initramfs-tools (0.142) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Setting up raspi-firmware (1.20220830+ds-1) ... Error: missing /boot/firmware, did you forget to mount it? dpkg: error processing package raspi-firmware (--configure): installed raspi-firmware package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.142) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-7-arm64 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rockchip/dptx.bin for module rockchipdrm I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sda2 I: (UUID=f9b86b70-965a-4079-948c-02dd4d016680) I: Set the RESUME variable to override this. raspi-firmware: missing /boot/firmware, did you forget to mount it? run-parts: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//z50-raspi-firmware exited with return code 1 dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure): installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: raspi-firmware initramfs-tools root@cs21:~# ``` While I now do have those files in ``/lib/firmware/brcm/`` it caused various error which will only go away if I uninstall this package again. And as expected, at least the assumption that ``/boot/firmware`` is present (and being a mountpoint?) is incorrect, which causes the package installation to fail, but it seems to also break any kernel related actions? So I've increased the severity to 'serious'.
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