ACK: [SRU][F/linux-firmware][PULL] Missing firmware files, in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, for initramfs, when it loads i915 (LP: #1939986)

[Tim Gardner]

Acked-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>

On 11/18/21 2:14 AM, Juerg Haefliger wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1939986
> 
> [ Impact ]
> 
> The i915 driver in Focal HWE kernels (currently 5.11 and 5.13) needs new firmware blobs. Without them, some users reported display/audio issues when installing said kernel.
> 
> 
> [ Test Case ]
> 
> 1) Install linux-generic-hwe-20.04
> 2) echo 'i915' >> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
> 3) update-initramfs -u
> 
> Which leads to multiple warnings:
> W: Possible missing firmware <foo> for module i915
> 
> 
> [Fix ]
> 
> Add missing firmware blobs from upstream linux-firmware.
> 
> 
> [ Where Problems Could Occur ]
> 
> New closed-source firmware binaries, would could possibly go wrong? No display with i915, kernel crashes.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh at canonical.com>
> 
> --------
> 
> The following changes since commit 05563da117f4009a30689364133eac38a4feecf7:
> 
>    UBUNTU: Ubuntu-1.187.20 (2021-10-20 15:33:56 +0300)
> 
> are available in the Git repository at:
> 
>    git+ssh://juergh@git.launchpad.net/~juergh/+git/linux-firmware lp1939986
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 6f1e209f14e17c32dfaf69601656db164cf7d513:
> 
>    i915: Add GuC firmware v49.0.1 for all platforms (2021-11-17 17:56:02 +0100)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Anusha Srivatsa (1):
>        i915: Add DG1 DMC v2.02
> 
> John Harrison (1):
>        i915: Add GuC firmware v49.0.1 for all platforms
> 
> José Roberto de Souza (1):
>        i915: Add HuC firwmare v7.5.0 for TGL
> 
>   WHENCE                   |  30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   i915/bxt_guc_49.0.1.bin  | Bin 0 -> 196224 bytes
>   i915/cml_guc_49.0.1.bin  | Bin 0 -> 197184 bytes
>   i915/dg1_dmc_ver2_02.bin | Bin 0 -> 16624 bytes
>   i915/ehl_guc_49.0.1.bin  | Bin 0 -> 324160 bytes
>   i915/glk_guc_49.0.1.bin  | Bin 0 -> 196672 bytes
>   i915/icl_guc_49.0.1.bin  | Bin 0 -> 324160 bytes
>   i915/kbl_guc_49.0.1.bin  | Bin 0 -> 197184 bytes
>   i915/skl_guc_49.0.1.bin  | Bin 0 -> 196288 bytes
>   i915/tgl_guc_49.0.1.bin  | Bin 0 -> 321792 bytes
>   i915/tgl_huc_7.5.0.bin   | Bin 0 -> 580736 bytes
>   11 files changed, 30 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100644 i915/bxt_guc_49.0.1.bin
>   create mode 100644 i915/cml_guc_49.0.1.bin
>   create mode 100644 i915/dg1_dmc_ver2_02.bin
>   create mode 100644 i915/ehl_guc_49.0.1.bin
>   create mode 100644 i915/glk_guc_49.0.1.bin
>   create mode 100644 i915/icl_guc_49.0.1.bin
>   create mode 100644 i915/kbl_guc_49.0.1.bin
>   create mode 100644 i915/skl_guc_49.0.1.bin
>   create mode 100644 i915/tgl_guc_49.0.1.bin
>   create mode 100644 i915/tgl_huc_7.5.0.bin
> 

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Tim Gardner
Canonical, Inc