Bug#974646: W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/rkl_dmc_ver2_01.bin for module i915

[Markus Koller]

Was wondering about this error as well, looks like it's a benign warning
and can be ignored:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/618869/debian-bullseye-firmware-for-i915

> rkl is apparently Rocket Lake, the codename for an Intel chipset that is
> supposed to be released in early 2021.
>  So this is the Linux i915
> driver already getting support for hardware that is not released yet.
>
> The i915 driver covers a wide range of Intel iGPUs, including all the
> current ones and sometimes even near-future ones if they follow a design
> similar to their predecessors.
>
> The kernel modules like i915 include metadata indicating the firmware
> files they *may* need: the i915 module needs to declare the firmware
> files for all supported Intel iGPU versions this way.
>
> The update-initramfs tool is not smart enough to cross-check the hardware
> information to find out which of the various firmware files declared by the
> i915 driver are *actually needed* by your hardware, so it will simply
> attempt to include all of them into initramfs.
>
> Unless you have installed firmware files for *all* the Intel iGPU
> variants, you may get some nuisance messages from update-initramfs; but
> if they don't refer to the iGPU/chipset version you're actually using, you
> can simply ignore them.
>

Bug#974646: W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/rkl_dmc_ver2_01.bin for module i915

[Thorsten Glaser]

Package: firmware-misc-nonfree
Version: 20200918-1
Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@mirbsd.de

I’m getting this during an upgrade in sid:

[…]
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.139) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.9.0-2-amd64
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/rkl_dmc_ver2_01.bin for module 
i915
[…]

Graphics work, so I don’t know the impact.

This is on a Thinkpad X61, in case this is important.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 
'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 
'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

firmware-misc-nonfree depends on no packages.

firmware-misc-nonfree recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firmware-misc-nonfree suggests:
ii  initramfs-tools  0.139

-- no debconf information