On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 9:50 AM Hans de Goede <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On 4/29/20 4:12 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 1:57 PM Justin Forbes <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 7:49 AM Hans de Goede <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> On 4/29/20 11:58 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: > >>>> Hi All, > >>>> > >>>> As discussed before the new SOF audio driver needed for audio to > >>>> function properly on recent Intel based laptops needs the > >>>> alsa-sof-firmware package. > >>>> > >>>> For F32 this has been added to comps, but for F31 and for people > >>>> upgrading from F31, we are still getting bug reports that audio > >>>> does not work with newer kernels, see e.g. : > >>>> > >>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1806334 > >>>> > >>>> So we need to do something for F31 ASAP (and rely on people fully > >>>> updating F31 before upgrading to fix upgrades to F32). > >>>> > >>>> My proposal still is to add a: > >>>> > >>>> Requires: alsa-sof-firmware > >>>> > >>>> To the F31 (and F30) kernel-modules sub-package. > >>>> > >>>> If I receive no objections to this I will add this change > >>>> to distgit soon , so that it can be picked up by the next > >>>> kernel build. > >>>> > >>>> Or even better if the maintainer of the current F30/F31 > >>>> kernel can do this before the next build, that would be > >>>> great. > >>> > >>> And we just got the 3th bug report for this in 2 days: > >>> > >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1772498#c240 > >>> > >>> Again after an upgrade to Fedora 32 (I guess people were > >>> sticking with an older kernel on F31). > >>> > >>> I think we should consider also adding the Requires to > >>> the F32 kernel-modules and rely on the comps thing for > >>> F33 and later only. > >>> > >> > >> I am not particularly happy with having to add it when the majority of > >> systems do not actually require it, but I have seen the bugs and > understand > >> the position we are in. The alsa-sof-firmware package is 384k, I think > >> adding it might be the best course of action. > > > > Can we do a recommends rather than a hard requires please? > > Good point, yes that should work fine, while allowing people who > really don't want it / want to save the space to opt out. > > So lets go with the Recommends. > Sure, I can add it to all of the 5.6.8 builds. Justin _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]
