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linux-firmware package

Update firmware for 18.04 hwe kernel

Bug #1763823 reported by Seth Forshee
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
linux-firmware (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
Xenial
Fix Released
Medium
Seth Forshee

Bug Description

SRU Justification

Impact: A 4.15-based hwe-edge kernel has been introduced into xenial. However some of the firmware files it requires are missing from xenial's linux-firmware, rendering the relevant hardware inoperable.

Fix: Add the missing firmware files.

Regression Potential: Most of these files will not be used by the existing kernels in xenial. A few may be, and while regressions are not expected it's possible that new firmware versions might introduce regressions.

Seth Forshee (sforshee)
Changed in linux-firmware (Ubuntu Xenial):
assignee: nobody → Seth Forshee (sforshee)
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → In Progress
Changed in linux-firmware (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Invalid
importance: Medium → Undecided
assignee: Seth Forshee (sforshee) → nobody
Seth Forshee (sforshee)
summary: - Update firmware for 4.15 linux-hwe-edge kernel
+ Update firmware for 18.04 hwe kernel
Changed in linux-firmware (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Seth, or anyone else affected,

Accepted linux-firmware into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/1.157.18 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Revision history for this message
Seth Forshee (sforshee) wrote :

Checked contents of binary packages and verified that all expected new firmware files are present.

tags: added: verification-done-xenial
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package linux-firmware - 1.157.18

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linux-firmware (1.157.18) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Redpine: BLE scanning for nearby beacons per second is too low and result
    high loss rate (LP: #1753439)
    - UBUNTU: linux-firmware: update firmware images for Redpine 9113 chipset

  * Redpine: BLE radio lost issue (LP: #1757443)
    - UBUNTU: linux-firmware: update firmware images for Redpine 9113 chipset

  * Update firmware for 18.04 hwe kernel (LP: #1763823)
    - linux-firmware: liquidio: update firmware to v1.4.2
    - linux-firmware: liquidio: update firmware to v1.5.1
    - linux-firmware: liquidio: update firmware to v1.6.0
    - firmware: tegra: Add VIC firmware
    - linux-firmware: liquidio: update firmware to v1.6.1
    - rtlwifi: rtl8822be: Add firmware for new driver/device
    - linux-firmware/i915: Add Geminilake DMC version 1.04
    - iwlwifi: add new firmware version 34 for 8000C and 8265
    - linux-firmware: liquidio: update firmware to v1.7.0
    - iwlwifi: add firmware version 34 for new 9000 series
    - amdgpu: add new CP firmware for polaris chips
    - Mellanox: Add new mlxsw_spectrum firmware 13.1530.152
    - brcm: introduce firmware for bcm43430 revision 0
    - amdgpu: add firmware for Raven
    - brcm: add CYW4373 firmwares and Cypress license file
    - amdgpu: update vcn firmware for raven
    - Revert "UBUNTU: Remove obsolete bnx2 firmware"
    - Revert "UBUNTU: Remove duplicate bnx2 firmware"
    - Revert "UBUNTU: Remove obsolete bnx2 firmware"
    - Revert "UBUNTU: Remove obsolete bnx2 firmware"
    - UBUNTU: update nic-firmware.lst for 18.04 hwe kernel

  * Update Qualcomm QCA6174-HMC (DW1820) to comply with CE-RED (Radio
    Emissions Directive) (LP: #1752044)
    - ath10k: QCA6174 hw3.0: update firmware-6.bin to WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00079-QCARMSWPZ-1
    - ath10k: QCA6174 hw3.0: update board-2.bin

 -- Seth Forshee <email address hidden> Tue, 24 Apr 2018 10:58:13 -0500

Changed in linux-firmware (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote : Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for linux-firmware has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

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