Bug#808792: firmware-iwlwifi: iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode is missing

Mike Hommey

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Dec 22, 2015, 9:00:02 PM12/22/15

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Package: firmware-iwlwifi
Version: 20151207-1
Severity: normal

# dmesg | grep iwlwifi | head -5
[ 7.473576] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[ 7.475332] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode (-2)
[ 7.475337] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode failed with error -2
[ 7.479873] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware iwlwifi-7260-16.ucode
[ 7.480478] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: loaded firmware version 16.242414.0 op_mode iwlmvm

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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 0.120

-- no debconf information

Laurent Bigonville

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Apr 20, 2016, 7:30:03 AM4/20/16

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On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 10:48:01 +0900 Mike Hommey
<mh+rep...@glandium.org> wrote:
> Package: firmware-iwlwifi
> Version: 20151207-1
> Severity: normal
>
> # dmesg | grep iwlwifi | head -5
> [ 7.473576] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
> [ 7.475332] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: firmware: failed to load
iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode (-2)
> [ 7.475337] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: Direct firmware load for
iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode failed with error -2
> [ 7.479873] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware
iwlwifi-7260-16.ucode
> [ 7.480478] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: loaded firmware version 16.242414.0
op_mode iwlmvm
>

According to this website[0], the latest maintained versions are
-19.ucode and -21.ucode.

The -16 which is currently in the package is marked as "end-of-life".
Might be the time to upgrade the firmware-iwlwifi package?

Cheers,

Laurent Bigonville

[0]https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi/core_release

Ben Hutchings

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Apr 20, 2016, 12:20:04 PM4/20/16

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On Wed, 2016-04-20 at 13:23 +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 10:48:01 +0900 Mike Hommey
> <mh+rep...@glandium.org> wrote:
> > Package: firmware-iwlwifi
> > Version: 20151207-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > # dmesg | grep iwlwifi | head -5
> > [ 7.473576] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
> > [ 7.475332] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: firmware: failed to load
> iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode (-2)
> > [ 7.475337] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: Direct firmware load for
> iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode failed with error -2
> > [ 7.479873] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware
> iwlwifi-7260-16.ucode
> > [ 7.480478] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: loaded firmware version 16.242414.0
> op_mode iwlmvm
> >
>
> According to this website[0], the latest maintained versions are
> -19.ucode and -21.ucode.
>
> The -16 which is currently in the package is marked as "end-of-life".
> Might be the time to upgrade the firmware-iwlwifi package?

Our upstream is linux-firmware.git, not a hundred vendor web sites.
Frankly I'm quite sick of the iwlwifi maintainers thinking their
firmware is special and should be distributed differently from every.

Ben.

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Bjørn Mork

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Apr 20, 2016, 3:10:03 PM4/20/16

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Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes:

> Our upstream is linux-firmware.git, not a hundred vendor web sites.
> Frankly I'm quite sick of the iwlwifi maintainers thinking their
> firmware is special and should be distributed differently from every.

Huh? I always though they sent a pull request whenever they felt a new
update was "ready". Like this:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/149963

But I'm not sure there has been a pull request for the 7260-17.ucode
yet? It's going to be the last revision for that hardware, so they
might want to get it "right" first. Nothing wrong about that AFAICS.
Or the fact that the driver has support for a revision which isn't yet
in the official repo. The driver works fine with the 7260-16.ucode too.

I don't see neither the website, or their firmware repo, as any attmept
to distribute firmware differently. It's merely a service to users
wanting to beta test early firmware. Personally I like having that
choice. But Debian should definitely not start packaging any of the
firmware revisions which aren't in linux-firmware.git.

Bjørn

Ben Hutchings

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Apr 20, 2016, 4:20:02 PM4/20/16

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On Wed, 2016-04-20 at 20:51 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes:
>
> >
> > Our upstream is linux-firmware.git, not a hundred vendor web sites.
> > Frankly I'm quite sick of the iwlwifi maintainers thinking their
> > firmware is special and should be distributed differently from every.
> Huh? I always though they sent a pull request whenever they felt a new
> update was "ready". Like this:
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/149963

[...]

But apparently the firmware sometimes isn't 'ready' until *after* the
previous major version reaches end of life.

If all versions of firmware are either EOL or beta, Intel is
effectively disclaiming support for the affected hardware.

Ben.

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Bjørn Mork

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Apr 20, 2016, 4:40:03 PM4/20/16

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Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes:
> On Wed, 2016-04-20 at 20:51 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
>> Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes:
>>
>> >
>> > Our upstream is linux-firmware.git, not a hundred vendor web sites.
>> > Frankly I'm quite sick of the iwlwifi maintainers thinking their
>> > firmware is special and should be distributed differently from every.
>> Huh? I always though they sent a pull request whenever they felt a new
>> update was "ready". Like this:
>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/149963
> [...]
>
> But apparently the firmware sometimes isn't 'ready' until *after* the
> previous major version reaches end of life.
>
> If all versions of firmware are either EOL or beta, Intel is
> effectively disclaiming support for the affected hardware.

Well, yes, that is confusing. I cannot imagine that it was their
intention. FWIW, the current driver still supports firmwares back to
"13" for the 7260:

/* Highest firmware API version supported */
#define IWL7260_UCODE_API_MAX 17
#define IWL7265_UCODE_API_MAX 17
#define IWL7265D_UCODE_API_MAX 21
#define IWL3168_UCODE_API_MAX 21

/* Oldest version we won't warn about */
#define IWL7260_UCODE_API_OK 13
#define IWL7265_UCODE_API_OK 13
#define IWL7265D_UCODE_API_OK 13
#define IWL3168_UCODE_API_OK 20

/* Lowest firmware API version supported */
#define IWL7260_UCODE_API_MIN 13
#define IWL7265_UCODE_API_MIN 13
#define IWL7265D_UCODE_API_MIN 13
#define IWL3168_UCODE_API_MIN 20

That is the authoritative source wrt "support".

Bjørn

Raphael Hertzog

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Jul 12, 2016, 3:20:02 AM7/12/16

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Hi,

On Wed, 20 Apr 2016, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > The -16 which is currently in the package is marked as "end-of-life".
> > Might be the time to upgrade the firmware-iwlwifi package?
>
> Our upstream is linux-firmware.git, not a hundred vendor web sites.
> Frankly I'm quite sick of the iwlwifi maintainers thinking their
> firmware is special and should be distributed differently from every.

It looks like -17 reached linux-firmware.git a few hours ago. Maybe
it's time to update firmware-nonfree?

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=f2cf4d67e8eced29c8a473d3a27057aa2df57c42

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Raphael Hertzog

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Jul 12, 2016, 10:40:04 AM7/12/16

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Hi,

On Tue, 12 Jul 2016, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> It looks like -17 reached linux-firmware.git a few hours ago. Maybe
> it's time to update firmware-nonfree?

We updated firmware-nonfree for Kali with the most important firmware
files, you can find our work here:
http://git.kali.org/gitweb/?p=packages/firmware-nonfree.git;a=summary

We left some new firmware files that we did not know where to put.

Diederik de Haas

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Jul 14, 2016, 11:40:02 PM7/14/16

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> It looks like -17 reached linux-firmware.git a few hours ago. Maybe
> it's time to update firmware-nonfree?

Yes please, as it also contains iwlwifi-7265D-21.ucode which was needed for my
ASUS ZenBook UX305CA.
I managed to workaround it, but I doubt the average user would.

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