Hi, Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote (Tue, 20 May 2025 22:13:54 +0200): > On 20/05/2025 at 21:54, Holger Wansing wrote: > > > > If I understand correctly, there are two ways, why those firmware files are > > copied/installed to the target system: > > - via some mechanism, when speech synthesis is used during installation > > (only loose firmware files are copied, no deb installed officially the apt > > way), > > Not only when speech synthesis is used but whenever gtk/initrd.gz is > used (by either graphical install or install with speech synthesis). > > > - via firmware-detect mechanism, when involved hardware is found > > (officially installing via apt). > > > > The second case should be solid enough to rely on, so why copy the files to > > /target in the first case at all? > > See bug#992699 [1] for details. > > TL;DR: > Speech synthesis needs sound to be enabled very early in the > installation process, before the installation media which contains > firmware packages is mounted. > > [1] <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=992699>
That's correct; however that's only within the installer environment. There is no need for the (apt-un-aware) copy of the firmware files to /target, since the usual firmware detect mechanism would take care of this (in an apt-clean way). Did I got the facts right? Holger -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
