On Wed, 2017-05-10 at 22:31 -0500, Brian T. Smith wrote: [...] > Debian stretch, kernel 4.9.0-2-amd64 includes the hfi1 module that provides > kernel-space ibverbs access to Omni-Path hardware for network communications. > However, the hfi1 module requires non-free firmware in order for the module to > properly initialize. > > This package will provide the required firmware for hfi1 hardware. The > upstream > URL contains many firmware images. The only binaries that will be installed by > this package are: > > * hfi1_dc8051.fw > * hfi1_fabric.fw > * hfi1_pcie.fw > * hfi1_platform.dat > * hfi1_sbus.fw > > I have been maintaining the Intel Fabric Suite for Omni-Path on Debian for > the past year as an employee of System Fabric Works (SFW). SFW has adequate > hardware and resources to test and maintain this package.
These are already part of linux-firmware.git so they could (and I think should) be packaged through firmware-nonfree, not in a separate source package. Despite the freeze, it's still OK to add new hardware support and so you could get this firmware into stretch. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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