Bug 894970

Summary:	iwlwifi-9000-pu-b0-jf-b0-33.ucode missing from sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20230210
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mark H. Wood <mwood>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mike Pagano <mpagano>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Mark H. Wood 2023-02-16 17:58:49 UTC

I tried to rebuild my kernel, but the build failed because a wifi firmware image that I build into the kernel was missing from /lib/firmware.  Dropping back from linux-firmware-20230210 to linux-firmware-20230117 fixed the problem.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Update to recent linux-firmware
2.Configure a kernel to build in iwlwifi-9000-pu-b0-jf-b0-33.ucode
3.Build kernel
Actual Results:  
Build fails, saying that a dependency, iwlwifi-etc. is not found.

Expected Results:  
Kernel is built as configured.

Comment 1 Mike Pagano gentoo-dev

2023-02-16 19:15:26 UTC

This was removed by upstream:

commit d11eb6f9ac2950b6c96bc54df791dcd7f170cd3c
Author: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 19 20:42:55 2023 +0000

    iwlwifi: remove old unsupported older than 4.14 LTS
    
    The 4.9 LTS is now EOL so we can now drop the older firmware
    that was required by the 4.4 LTS series. This removes the
    extra iwlwifi 1k/3k/5k/6k/7k/8k/9k series of device that
    are no longer used by a supported kernel series.
    
    Cc: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@kernel.org>

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=d11eb6f9ac2950b6c96bc54df791dcd7f170cd3c

Comment 2 Mike Pagano gentoo-dev

2023-02-16 19:20:11 UTC

Any reason you are not using a newer firmware version ?

Comment 3 Mark H. Wood 2023-02-16 19:44:00 UTC

I was under the impression that this was the only version that would load in this part.  How should I find out what firmware file I should be using?

Comment 4 Mike Pagano gentoo-dev

2023-02-17 17:03:21 UTC

(In reply to Mark H. Wood from comment #3)
> I was under the impression that this was the only version that would load in
> this part.  How should I find out what firmware file I should be using?

Have you tried not specifying a firmware version and letting the kernel load it?