​Hi Andy,

Thank you for your reply.

Below are the names of packages that need to be backported for Debian's 
Bullseye:

firmware-amd-graphics
firmware-intel-sound
firmware-iwlwifi
firmware-linux
firmware-linux-nonfree
firmware-misc-nonfree
firmware-realtek

Many Debian users have machines that sport the latest Intel 12th generation 
CPUs with Intel Iris Xe graphics and Intel AX211 wireless chipsets that are 
capable of WiFi 6e. The current backported versions for Bullseye are more than 
18 months' old.

Now is the time for maintainers to backport the latest non-free drivers in 
preparation for the soft freeze of Debian 12, codenamed Bookworm.

Best regards.

Leroy​




From: Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2022 9:43 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Request: Could the maintainers update the non-free drivers please? 
 
Hi Leroy,

On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 07:43:45AM +0000, Leroy McFarland wrote:
> The non-free drivers in Bullseye's repos are dated 20210315, more than a year 
> ago.​

What is the package name that you are looking at within non-free?

Once you've worked that out, the next step is probably to report a
bug against the package with "wishlist" severity. Unless the lack of
a newer version is causing something to break, rather than just
resulting in newer functionality being missing, in which case a
higher severity might be appropriate.

Cheers,
Andy

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