Re: mediatek mt7921u wifi issue with recent firmware-misc-nonfree upgrade

On Sat, 2024-09-07 at 14:23 +0200, Jan Groenewald wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Files seem to have moved from /usr/lib to /lib.
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/firmware-mediatek/filelist
> https://packages.debian.org/bookworm-backports/all/firmware-mediatek/filelist

The files are under /lib in bookworm, and this hasn't changed in
bookworm-backports.

> > From https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge
> In February 2021, the Technical Committee has resolved that Debian
> 'bookworm' should support only the merged-usr root filesystem layout,
> dropping support for the non-merged-usr layout. (978636
> <https://bugs.debian.org/978636>)

Yes, but packages were not supposed to move files under /usr in the
bookworm release.

> Could this be an issue? Do you have a lib -> usr/lib  symlink?
> How/where does the kernel locate firmware?

The kernel looks in /lib/firmware.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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