rncoll7 [1] filed a deletion request for intel-ivsc-firmware [2]: Upstream (github.com/intel/ivsc-firmware) was archived by Intel. The in-tree mei-vsc driver (since 6.8, drivers/misc/mei/vsc-fw-loader.c) loads intel/vsc/ivsc_fw.bin, intel/vsc/ivsc_pkg_<sensor>_0.bin and intel/vsc/ivsc_skucfg_<sensor>_0_1.bin. Those files are shipped by linux-firmware-intel; they were added to linux-firmware in commit cfc997c6 (2023-12-18).
linux-firmware-intel contains all 29 binaries from the upstream repo: 22 are byte-identical, and the other 7 differ (linux-firmware's copies were committed in 2023-12, the ones in the archived repo date from 2022). This package installs them to /usr/lib/firmware/vsc/soc_a1_prod/*_a1_prod.bin, a path read only by the out-of-tree intel-ivsc-driver-dkms-git, which is itself obsolete and has a deletion request. Last modified 2022-08, flagged out-of-date since 2024-07-31. The only remaining dependent is intel-ipu7-dkms-git, which lists it by mistake (IPU7 doesn't use the IVSC; its firmware is in linux-firmware- intel). A fix has been proposed in a comment on that package. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/rncoll7/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/intel-ivsc-firmware/
