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

On Sat, Dec 09, 2023 at 05:06:47PM +0100, Roland Clobus wrote:
>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.

Nod; this is just the first time I've realised this behaviour.

>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?

For other reasons, we're about to do a quick-turnaround 12.4. But
otherwise the sentiment is fine, yes! :-)