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Bug#823637: firmware-nonfree: please add a firmware-nvidia-graphics package

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Control: reassign 839139 src:firmware-nonfree
Control: severity -1 important
Control: merge -1 839139
Control: tags -1 patch

On 2016-05-06 23:23 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:

> Source: firmware-nonfree
> Version: 20160110-1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Starting with the Maxwell GM20x generation[1], NVidia graphics cards
> require signed firmware for most operations, the Nouveau driver does not
> provide acceleration without the firmware.
>
> In February 2016, NVidia finally made the firmware available in the
> linux-firmware git repository, and with Linux 4.6 and Mesa 11.2 (both
> currently in experimental) users should be able to get acceptable
> performance out of their expensive cards without having to resort to the
> proprietary driver.

This really ought to be fixed, as these cards have become very common
and users are complaining (see #839139).  The second of the attached
patches creates a new firmware-nvidia-graphics package with the firmware
files for Maxwell and Pascal chips.  While I still don't have the
hardware to test the package, at least update-initramfs no longer warns
about missing firmware when nouveau is included in
/etc/initramfs-tools/modules.

The new package currently is slightly under 60 kilobytes, and it would
certainly also be possible to put the files into the
firmware-misc-nonfree catch-all package (the Tegra firmware is already
there).  However, more NVidia firmware is probably going to be released
in the future, so a separate package makes sense to me.

In any case, the first of the two attached patches fixes a problem in
debian/rules.real where 'ln' would fail because a target directory does
not exist.

Thanks for consideration,
Sven

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Bug#823637: firmware-nonfree: please add a firmware-nvidia-graphics package Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2016-05-06 23:30 +0200
  Processed: Re: Bug#823637: firmware-nonfree: please add a  firmware-nvidia-graphics package owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2016-10-14 18:10 +0200
  Bug#823637: firmware-nonfree: please add a firmware-nvidia-graphics package Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2016-10-14 18:10 +0200
  Bug#823637: marked as done (firmware-nonfree: please add a  firmware-nvidia-graphics package) owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2016-12-03 23:30 +0100

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