"W: Possible missing firmware"

[Sarunas Burdulis]

On 6/27/23 10:22, Volker Wysk wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Am Dienstag, dem 27.06.2023 um 02:17 -0400 schrieb Jeffrey Walton:
>> On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 12:46 AM Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> I found this in my /var/log/apt/term.log:
>>>
>>> ...
>>> Processing triggers for linux-image-5.19.0-45-generic (5.19.0-45.46~22.04.1)
>>> ...
>>> /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools:
>>> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.19.0-45-generic
>>> W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/ip_discovery.bin for
>>> module amdgpu
>>> W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/vega10_cap.bin for module
>>> amdgpu
>>> W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_cap.bin for
>>> module amdgpu
>>> W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_cap.bin for module
>>> amdgpu
>>> W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/aldebaran_cap.bin for
>>> module amdgpu
>>> W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/gc_11_0_0_toc.bin for
>>> module amdgpu
>>> W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_mes1.bin
>>> for module amdgpu
>>> W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_mes.bin for
>>> module amdgpu
>>> W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi10_mes.bin for module
>>> amdgpu
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Those messages should appear when doing "sudo apt full-upgrade", but they
>>> are logged here instead, because of unattended-upgrades or something like
>>> that.
>>>
>>> I have an AMD-based graphics card, a "Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 550 4GD5
>>> (Lexa XT)".
>>>
>>> Can anyone tell me what's up? I have the suspicion that this is related to
>>> my jerky video playback problem.
>>
>> https://askubuntu.com/a/1124256 may help. I've had to upgrade the
>> amdgpu firmware and drivers like that on one machine, too. It was an
>> AMD machine, though. The on-bord video was too new at the time.
> 
> I've tried to find the missing drivers for my system (Ubuntu 22.04.2). I've
> looked in packages.ubuntu.com as well as cloned the newest Git repository
> (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git).
> 
> The missing drivers (e.g. vega10_cap.bin) are nowhere to be found.

RX550 is supposed to be Polaris, using polaris* firmware blobs, not 
vega* etc. Those are just warnings.

-- 
Sarunas Burdulis
Dartmouth Mathematics
math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas

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