Bug#1023240: firmware-iwlwifi: iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-72.ucode possibly missing

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Package: firmware-iwlwifi
Version: 20221012-1
Severity: normal


Hey there.

There possibly is a firmware file missing. In the kernel log I see:
# dmesg | grep -i wifi
[ 158.112234] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux
[ 158.114662] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-72.ucode (-2)
[ 158.114669] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-72.ucode (-2)
[ 158.114670] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-72.ucode failed with error -2
[ 158.116799] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: firmware: direct-loading firmware iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-71.ucode
[ 158.116804] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: api flags index 2 larger than supported by driver
[ 158.116822] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION: FSEQ Version: 0.0.2.36
[ 158.117057] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: firmware: failed to load iwl-debug-yoyo.bin (-2)
[ 158.117061] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: firmware: failed to load iwl-debug-yoyo.bin (-2)
[ 158.117063] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: loaded firmware version 71.058653f6.0 so-a0-gf-a0-71.ucode op_mode iwlmvm
[ 158.278035] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6E AX211 160MHz, REV=0x370
[ 158.451222] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: firmware: direct-loading firmware iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0.pnvm
[ 158.451242] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: loaded PNVM version 881c99e1
[ 158.466456] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Detected RF GF, rfid=0x2010d000
[ 158.536276] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: base HW address: 7c:b5:66:f7:a8:a5
[ 165.944059] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Unhandled alg: 0x707

So it first tries to load iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-72.ucode, which fails and only
then tries iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-71.ucode, which does in fact succeed...
and as far as I can see the device *is* working.

So maybe this is a non-issue, but maybe the missing file should be added.

Cheers,
Chris.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
merged-usr: no
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

firmware-iwlwifi depends on no packages.

firmware-iwlwifi recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firmware-iwlwifi suggests:
ii initramfs-tools 0.142

-- no debconf information

[Sergio Gelato]

It was added to linux-firmware.git after 2022-10-12, should be in 20221109:

commit 06dbfbc74388a2e9a7228f4215b884a3139ece56
Author: Gregory Greenman <gregory....@intel.com>
Date: Wed Oct 26 12:15:12 2022 +0300

iwlwifi: add new FWs from core69-81 release

Add the -69.ucode firmwares for the currently supported hardware.
This is not the latest core, but we didn't send it before and it still
can be useful.

I'll check tomorrow whether it will cure the errors I'm getting with kernel
5.19.11-1~bpo11+1 on an AX211 with -71.ucode (regression from 5.18.16-1~bpo11+1
which works on the same hardware/firmware combo).