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Bug#950971: Detecting false positives about i915 firmware

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Hello,

Am Sa., 20. Juni 2020 um 14:09 Uhr schrieb Richard Lewis
<richard.lewis.debian@googlemail.com>:
>
> I also have these messages but I think they are likely false
> positives. There seems to be a lot of possibly misleading information
> and advice on the internet about these warnings -- would love to her
> your advice on this, but i think these are mostly false positives
>
> * am i right in suspecting that these messages are often false positives?

The kernel modules arelooked at and list all firmware blobs they might request.

> * why is firmware for processors not present is being warned about?

To be able to create 100% complete systems? Not sure...

> * is there a way to suppress some of these warnings? (perhaps a
> user-defined filter?)
> * how do i tell which firmware my processor actually needs?

I am using "dmesg | grep -i firmware" to check what firmware in a running
system is actually loaded into the kernel.

>
> The longest and most plausible source i have found is [1] but it seems
> to miss the point that there is no point installing firmware for a
> skylake processor if you don't have one. It also recommends
> downloading non-free blobs from intel which may not be the best
> solution
>
> [1]: https://askubuntu.com/questions/832524/possible-missing-frmware-lib-firmware-i915
>


best regards,

Floriian La Roche

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Bug#950971: firmware-misc-nonfree: warnings about missing firmware while updating initramfs Alexander Kernozhitsky <sh200105@mail.ru> - 2020-02-08 22:10 +0100
  Bug#950971: fault still exists in testing distribution Jan de Kruyf <jan.de.kruyf@gmail.com> - 2020-05-24 04:40 +0200
  Bug#950971: Detecting false positives about i915 firmware Richard Lewis <richard.lewis.debian@googlemail.com> - 2020-06-20 14:10 +0200
    Bug#950971: Detecting false positives about i915 firmware Florian La Roche <florian.laroche@googlemail.com> - 2020-06-20 15:20 +0200
  Bug#950971: marked as done (firmware-misc-nonfree: warnings about  missing firmware while updating initramfs) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2020-08-06 17:30 +0200

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