Bug#989863: debian-installer: Firmware problems in bullseye

2021-07-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (2021-07-26): > > ## proposed solution > > > > If others agree, I suggest we add the following somewhere in the > > installation guide (I don't think we should have a specific warning > > in the installer; or more specifically it would be way too late to > > have it be shown

Bug#989863: debian-installer: Firmware problems in bullseye

2021-07-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Salvatore, Salvatore Bonaccorso (2021-07-26): > On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 06:14:09AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > @KT: > > > > I haven't uploaded it since I'm seeing iwlwifi requesting what appears > > to be a debug-only firmware (iwl-debug-yoyo.bin), that's even requested > > via an

Bug#989863: debian-installer: Firmware problems in bullseye

2021-07-26 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
HI Cyril, On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 06:14:09AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > @KT: > > I haven't uploaded it since I'm seeing iwlwifi requesting what appears > to be a debug-only firmware (iwl-debug-yoyo.bin), that's even requested > via an aptly-named firmware_request_nowarn() function in

Bug#989863: debian-installer: Firmware problems in bullseye

2021-07-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
TL;DR: No progress on the social side (doc) yet, but lots of progress on the technical side (making firmware-enabled images work better)! Kernel team, feel free to skip to @KT for a little question. I'd like to thank Ben again for the modalias thing, this made it very easy to deploy

Bug#989863: debian-installer: Firmware problems in bullseye

2021-07-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2021-07-24 at 10:27 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jul 2021 at 09:05:59 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > If we were to go the “(almost) all in” route, it might make sense to > > either blacklist (some of) those, or to whitelist the known-ok ones, > > which would require some

Bug#989863: debian-installer: Firmware problems in bullseye

2021-07-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Paul, Paul Gevers (2021-07-24): > On 24-07-2021 09:05, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > @RT: I'd be happy to have some feedback from your regarding this > > approach; telling people to enable contrib/non-free so that > > they can install firmware packages is definitely *not* > >

Bug#989863: debian-installer: Firmware problems in bullseye

2021-07-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Cyril, On 24-07-2021 09:05, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > @RT: I'd be happy to have some feedback from your regarding this > approach; telling people to enable contrib/non-free so that they > can install firmware packages is definitely *not* something I take > lightly, but I'd be

Bug#989863: debian-installer: Firmware problems in bullseye

2021-07-24 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 24 Jul 2021 at 09:05:59 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > If we were to go the “(almost) all in” route, it might make sense to > either blacklist (some of) those, or to whitelist the known-ok ones, > which would require some monitoring of new additions over time (which > dillon, behind

Bug#989863: debian-installer: Firmware problems in bullseye

2021-07-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, I thought I'd file two separate bug reports with details of test installations (with main-only images, and with firmware-enabled images), on two test machines (one with Radeon, one with Nvidia), but after having collected information from a single test installation, I fear this is going to be

Bug#989863: debian-installer: Firmware problems in bullseye

2021-06-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: debian-installer Severity: important Hi, This is an umbrella bug report that I intend to use to track at least two separate issues (that are really the two sides of the same coin): - Official installation images (main-only) might lead to a successful installation but result in a