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Hi,
Roland Clobus <
[email protected]> (2025-05-23):
It turns out that I actually own hardware that needs additional firmware to properly work: Lenovo Thinkpad P16s Gen3.
I found out that one needs to place the firmware files inside the initrd of the installer for espeakup to find them, it is not sufficient to generate a .patterns file (that will be picked up much later by hw-detect)
Yes, this is similar to the firmware-sof-signed situation.
I've prepared a patch for the live images, which will be merged soon: https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/merge_requests/424
The ugly thing is that I need the kernel modules 'drm' and 'i915' and their dependencies in addition to the firmware to enable sound for espeakup on the Lenovo Thinkpad.
Would it be OK to stuff so much extras in the initrd of the installer?
We already have drm.ko (and a few others, for other reasons). Do you
have a full list of required modules? I can only see a grep call, and at
least drm seems like a HUGE hammer:
- a current gtk initrd's /kernel/drivers/gpu/drm is 560K
- a current linux-image's /kernel/drivers/gpu/drm is 9.5M
Also, how does firmware-intel-graphics fit in this picture?
Cheers,
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Cyril Brulebois (
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D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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