Control: tag -1 patch pending Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> (2023-01-29): > If we really want not to use a bare /firmware, maybe /firmware-lookup? > But having something specialized in hw-detect and something much more > generic in preseed would look strange to me. I don't really mind either > way.
This seems to work fine: - https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/hw-detect/-/commits/non-free-firmware - https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/preseed/-/commits/non-free-firmware Test environments: - VM with a Realtek Wi-Fi USB dongle shared from the host, which requests firmware even if it doesn't *need* it at least for basic operations (incl. WPA2); installed by sharing the netinst image as a CD-ROM. + tested with default boot parameters + tested with firmware=never - Dell G3 15 pulling many firmware packages (iwlwifi, linux-free, misc-nonfree, realtek, sof-signed); installed using the netinst image deployed on a USB stick. [That's the one where iwlwifi also wants iwl-debug-yoyo.bin, which was blocklisted for bullseye, and that still works.] + tested with default boot parameters + tested with hw-detect/firmware-lookup=never With “never”, since the firmware isn't really needed in the first case, I had to pick one interface of the wired/wireless ones, like when using default boot parameters; in the second case, the wired interface was picked up automatically. In both cases, the resulting sources.list correctly lists only main, despite the netinst image's having local, main, non-free, and non-free-firmware. firmware-linux-free is installed in both cases (it's recommended by linux-image-$ABI). If someone fancies different names, the time is now! Meeting with Steve coming up in a few hours, I'll upload shortly after. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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