Control: reassign -1 debian-cd Hello,
Cyril Brulebois, le dim. 22 août 2021 16:02:20 +0200, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> (2021-08-22): > > As mentioned in the Bullseye errata, there seems to be a number of > > sound cards that require loading a firmware to be able to emit sound > > (e.g. Intel SOF). Unfortunately currently the installer loads firmware > > after loading the ISO image, while speech synthesis is needed at the > > very first interaction with the user, which is usually before that. We'd > > thus want (for the firmware-enabled image) to include firmware in the > > initrd somehow. > > For context, that's sof I was fighting with: > > https://tracker.debian.org/news/1245087/accepted-hw-detect-1147-source-into-unstable/ > > > We discussed a bit on IRC, possibly we could just, at debian-cd step, > > catenate the cpio archives, or unpack/assemble/repack, or ship several > > initrds. > > And once booted on my sof-enabled laptop, it starts speaking, so I > suppose that's a successful PoC; next step is to confirm whether > tweaking debian-cd to do the cat dance looks good to Steve as well. I had a try at adding support to debian-cd, I can up with this: https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/debian-cd/-/merge_requests/23 It actually follows the debian-edu way which uses cpio -oA to append content. That makes it simpler for anybody who would be trying to gunzip the initrd.gz Cyril, could you try on the actual hardware the resulting image: https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/tmp/debian-sid-amd64-NETINST-1.iso debian-cd people, could you have a look? It would be also very worth applying to the bullseye images. Samuel
