Bug#1057844: bookworm live images: d-i speech installation not loading sof firmware

On 09/12/2023 15:48, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Package: cdimage.debian.org
> Severity: important
> Tags: a11y
> 
> Testing the gnome live image for the 12.3 release...
> 
> Running d-i from that image complained early on about missing Intel SOF
> firmware. Later on, the same image finds and loads intel wifi firmware
> just fine. Checking on the image, all the firmware debs are sym-linked
> in /firmware just fine but we don't have the extra metadata file
> (Contents file and dep11 stuff). Early on, AFAICS this means that the
> sof firmware isn't detected and loaded.
> 
> Indeed, checking a d-i speech installation from this image, I don't
> get audio. Argh.
> 
> Checking the same machine (Thinkpad T14s) with the amd64 netinst, it
> successfully loads firmware and starts the speech installer.

This isn't new for Bookworm 12.3, is it? There has been no change in the 
images generated by live-build regarding the /firmware folder, they have 
always contained just the symlinked .deb files.

I only recently started to look deeper into the special folders for the 
installer and noticed that the content of /firmware differs between the 
netinst and the live images.

Let's discuss this under less time pressure (today is the 12.3 release day).
I think that this ticket could be re-assigned (or cloned) to live-build 
for the implementation of the fix.

If needed, could a 12.3.1 live image be released, with just this fix, 
instead of waiting for 12.4?

With kind regards,
Roland Clobus

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