Bug#935969: linux-image-5.2.0-2-amd64: Missing firmware for new driver rtwpci

From	Iustin Pop <iustin@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#935969: linux-image-5.2.0-2-amd64: Missing firmware for new driver rtwpci
Date	2020-02-15 23:00 +0100
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On 2019-12-22 11:27:25, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + pending
> 
> Hi Andrea,
> 
> On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 08:46:42AM +0100, Andrea Palazzi wrote:
> > Package: firmware-realtek
> > Version: 20190717-2
> > Followup-For: Bug #935969
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > What's keeping this bug from being fixed, given that there's a patch available?
> > Is there something that I can do to help?
> > 
> > Also, shouldn't it be an important bug, since it makes unusable the wifi in
> > systems with boars using the rtw88 firmware?
> 
> It would need a slightly different approach, because the rules.gen is
> generated. Sjoerd Simons proposed the changes in
> https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/firmware-nonfree/merge_requests/10
> .
> 
> The packaging itself needs more changes to be finalized, but the
> support is now commited.

That's great to hear, but any chance of uploading a -3 version? This is
still broken for such devices (and thus prevents using a backported 
kernel, for example).

thanks,
iustin

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Bug#935969: linux-image-5.2.0-2-amd64: Missing firmware for new driver rtwpci Fredrik Tolf <fredrik@dolda2000.com> - 2019-08-28 16:40 +0200
  Bug#935969: linux-image-5.2.0-2-amd64: Missing firmware for new driver rtwpci Andrea Palazzi <palazziandrea@yahoo.it> - 2019-10-22 21:40 +0200
  Bug#935969: linux-image-5.2.0-2-amd64: Missing firmware for new driver rtwpci Andrea Palazzi <palazziandrea@yahoo.it> - 2019-12-22 09:00 +0100
    Bug#935969: linux-image-5.2.0-2-amd64: Missing firmware for new driver rtwpci Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2019-12-22 11:40 +0100
      Bug#935969: linux-image-5.2.0-2-amd64: Missing firmware for new driver rtwpci Iustin Pop <iustin@debian.org> - 2020-02-15 23:00 +0100
  Processed: Re: Bug#935969: linux-image-5.2.0-2-amd64: Missing  firmware for new driver rtwpci "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2019-12-22 11:40 +0100
  Bug#935969: Any chance of getting updated package? Holger Mickler <holger.mickler@gmail.com> - 2020-05-06 00:10 +0200

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