kernel 4.12: iwlwifi: 8260: missing iwlwifi-8000C-{22..30}.ucode firmware

[Edmund Laugasson]

Hi,

> What release are you using? The only place where 4.12 is currently
> relevant is artful 17.10, and that is more or less up to date.
Using still Xenial branch but with newest stable kernel.

> If you are using a 4.12 kernel on other releases, that's not supported
> currently (the hwe-edge kernel in xenial will move to 4.12 and beyond
> later, but that hasn't happened yet).

Are you trying to say that if I install Artful 17.10 then this firmware
is there and Intel 8260 with iwlwifi works? The problem is that 17.10 is
not LTS and therefore not supported by other important cases like
Estonian ID card etc. Most software vendors do not support usually
others than LTS.

> However if there are firmware updates relevant to a supported kernel for any release you can file a
> bug against linux-firmware, and we will consider pulling in the upedates.

Done - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1704799

> Regarding the -22 firmware specifically, we had to remove that from all
> releases because it wasn't working at all for some hardware
> configurations. Unless those issues have been fixed we won't be able to
> pull in that firmware version.

Sad to hear it. This makes 4.12+ kernel useless for me unless I manually
hack them like I recently did. Mentioned it also in that bug report. I
really hope that you can cope with Intel developers and solve those
issues you mentioned.

Best Regards,
Edmund Laugasson