I'm unable to emerge alsa-firmware with ALSA_CARDS="ca0132" when linux-firmware is already emerged. I need firmware from linux-firmware for AMD CPU microcode and other reasons, but needa alsa-firmware too. When checking linux-firmware for the specific ca0132 firmware, it's not included in the package. I've been able to work around this issue for now, by manually downloading the firmware from: https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-firmware and putting the related files in /lib/firmware Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Set ALSA_CARDS="ca0132" 2.Rung emerge -pv alsa-firwmare with linux-firmware already installed Actual Results: linux-firmware and alsa-firmware are not able to co-exist when ALSA_CARDS="ca0132" is set. Expected Results: Being able to emerge both linux-firmware and alsa-firmware These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] sys-firmware/alsa-firmware-1.0.29::gentoo ALSA_CARDS="ca0132 -aica -asihpi -cs46xx -darla20 -darla24 -echo3g -emu10k1 -emu1212 -emu1616 -emu1820 -gina20 -gina24 -hdsp -hdspm -indigo -indigoio -korg1212 -layla20 -layla24 -maestro3 -mia -mixart -mona -msnd-pinnacle -pcxhr -sb16 -usb-usx2y -vx222 -wavefront -ymfpci" 4880 KiB [blocks B ] sys-firmware/alsa-firmware[alsa_cards_ca0132] ("sys-firmware/alsa-firmware[alsa_cards_ca0132]" is blocking sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20191008) Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 4880 KiB Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. (sys-firmware/alsa-firmware-1.0.29:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by alsa-firmware (sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20191008:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by sys-kernel/linux-firmware required by @selected For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant): https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Working/Portage#Blocked_packages
(In reply to nvaert1986 from comment #0) > I'm unable to emerge alsa-firmware with ALSA_CARDS="ca0132" when > linux-firmware is already emerged. I need firmware from linux-firmware for > AMD CPU microcode and other reasons, but needa alsa-firmware too. When > checking linux-firmware for the specific ca0132 firmware, it's not included > in the package.
=sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20191008 was removed long time ago.