linux-firmware: restore firmware files previously shipped with the kernel

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/1.157.20 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!

root@stilson:~# dpkg -l linux-firmware | grep ^i
ii linux-firmware 1.157.19 all Firmware for Linux kernel drivers
root@stilson:~# update-initramfs -u
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-24-generic
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3_tso5.bin for module tg3
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3_tso.bin for module tg3
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3.bin for module tg3
W: mdadm: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf defines no arrays.
root@stilson:~# apt-get install linux-firmware
[...]
Unpacking linux-firmware (1.157.20) over (1.157.19) ...
Setting up linux-firmware (1.157.20) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-24-generic
W: mdadm: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf defines no arrays.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.13.0-45-generic
W: mdadm: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf defines no arrays.
root@stilson:~#

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.

This bug was fixed in the package linux-firmware - 1.157.20

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linux-firmware (1.157.20) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Restore firmware files which were previously shipped with the kernel
    (LP: #1778529)
    - Revert "UBUNTU: Remove duplicate e100 firmware"
    - Revert "UBUNTU: Remove duplicate qlogic firmware"
    - Revert "UBUNTU: Remove duplicate tigon firmware"
    - UBUNTU: Add firmware removed from Linux 4.14 to udebs

 -- Seth Forshee <email address hidden> Mon, 25 Jun 2018 09:20:00 -0500