update-initramfs should include firmware from /lib/firmware/updates

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

We still experienced the same issue with 20.04 Beta Release.

Can we request the attached "fix.patch" to be pulled to address this issue?

Hello,
Any update on this request?
Thanks,
Lihong

Thank you for the report and the patch, I've subscribed ubuntu-sponsors now. Could you maybe explain the practical impact/what problems it creates?

This is for the convenience of user who uses custom firmware and company who deploy updated firmware. Without the /lib/firmware/updates directory, if user want to use custom firmware, he has to replace the /lib/firmware files or create a directory for each kernel version.

@Qiang Yu

In Ubuntu, none of the linux-firmware packages ship anything in /updates directly. /lib should only contain files managed by dpkg / installed from the Ubuntu Archive. We ship all up to date firmware for all devices.

I do not think it is reasonable to start supporting /updates directory, and thus suggesting that users drop-in firmware files there, which are not managed by dpkg.

Ubuntu, releases firmware updates for AMD hardware, if we are missing any firmware updates for AMD, you can contact <email address hidden>

Apparently lots of things still ship stuff in /updates/

And because kernel says so, distributions are forced to follow.

This fix already exists in groovy and hirsute. It was applied when pulling in version 0.137 from upstream. The attached patch is to SRU the fix into focal.

I've sponsored this.

> I've sponsored this.

without a SRU template? ;-)

> without a SRU template? ;-)

Thanks for the reminder!

Hello Qiang, or anyone else affected,

Accepted initramfs-tools into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/0.136ubuntu6.4 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, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. 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 for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

The SRU verification passed for focal. The attached screenshot shows firmware staged in /lib/firmware/updates that is not included in the initramfs with version 0.136ubuntu6.3 of initramfs-tools, and then correctly included in the initramfs with version 0.136ubuntu6.4 of initramfs-tools.

This bug was fixed in the package initramfs-tools - 0.136ubuntu6.4

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initramfs-tools (0.136ubuntu6.4) focal; urgency=medium

  * hook-functions: Search for firmware under /lib/firmware/updates
    (LP: #1571506)

 -- William 'jawn-smith' Wilson <email address hidden> Wed, 03 Mar 2021 16:34:04 -0600

The verification of the Stable Release Update for initramfs-tools has completed successfully and the package is now being 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.

uploaded to bionic

Hello Qiang, or anyone else affected,

Accepted initramfs-tools into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/0.130ubuntu3.12 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, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. 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 for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

ubuntu@lp1571506-b:~$ dpkg -l|grep initramfs-tools
ii initramfs-tools 0.130ubuntu3.11 all generic modular initramfs generator (automation)
ii initramfs-tools-bin 0.130ubuntu3.11 amd64 binaries used by initramfs-tools
ii initramfs-tools-core 0.130ubuntu3.11 all generic modular initramfs generator (core tools)
ubuntu@lp1571506-b:~$ sudo lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-142-generic | grep firmware
lib/udev/rules.d/50-firmware.rules
lib/firmware
lib/firmware/netronome
lib/firmware/netronome/nic_AMDA0081-0001_1x40.nffw
lib/firmware/netronome/nic_AMDA0097-0001_2x40.nffw
lib/firmware/netronome/nic_AMDA0099-0001_2x25.nffw
lib/firmware/netronome/nic_AMDA0097-0001_8x10.nffw
lib/firmware/netronome/nic_AMDA0099-0001_2x10.nffw
lib/firmware/netronome/nic_AMDA0081-0001_4x10.nffw
lib/firmware/netronome/nic_AMDA0097-0001_4x10_1x40.nffw
lib/firmware/netronome/nic
lib/firmware/netronome/nic/nic_AMDA0081-0001_1x40.nffw
lib/firmware/netronome/nic/nic_AMDA0097-0001_2x40.nffw
lib/firmware/netronome/nic/nic_AMDA0099-0001_2x25.nffw
lib/firmware/netronome/nic/nic_AMDA0097-0001_8x10.nffw
lib/firmware/netronome/nic/nic_AMDA0099-0001_2x10.nffw
lib/firmware/netronome/nic/nic_AMDA0081-0001_4x10.nffw
lib/firmware/netronome/nic/nic_AMDA0097-0001_4x10_1x40.nffw
lib/firmware/netronome/nic/nic_AMDA0096-0001_2x10.nffw
lib/firmware/netronome/nic_AMDA0096-0001_2x10.nffw
lib/firmware/ql2100_fw.bin
lib/firmware/ql2400_fw.bin
lib/firmware/bnx2x
lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1-7.13.1.0.fw
lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.13.1.0.fw
lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.13.1.0.fw
lib/firmware/mellanox
lib/firmware/mellanox/mlxsw_spectrum-13.1530.152.mfa2
lib/firmware/tigon
lib/firmware/tigon/tg3_tso.bin
lib/firmware/tigon/tg3_tso5.bin
lib/firmware/tigon/tg3.bin
lib/firmware/ql2322_fw.bin
lib/firmware/qlogic
lib/firmware/qlogic/1280.bin
lib/firmware/qlogic/12160.bin
lib/firmware/qlogic/1040.bin
lib/firmware/ql2300_fw.bin
lib/firmware/ql2500_fw.bin
lib/firmware/ql2200_fw.bin
lib/modules/4.15.0-142-generic/kernel/drivers/firmware
lib/modules/4.15.0-142-generic/kernel/drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.ko
ubuntu@lp1571506-b:~$ sudo mkdir /lib/firmware/updates
ubuntu@lp1571506-b:~$ sudo mv /lib/firmware/bnx2x /lib/firmware/updates/
ubuntu@lp1571506-b:~$ sudo update-initramfs -u
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-142-generic
ubuntu@lp1571506-b:~$ sudo lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-142-generic | grep firmware
lib/udev/rules.d/50-firmware.rules
lib/firmware
lib/firmware/netronome
lib/firmware/netronome/nic_AMDA0081-0001_1x40.nffw
lib/firmware/netronome/nic_AMDA0097-0001_2x40.nffw
lib/firmware/netronome/nic_AMDA0099-0001_2x25.nffw
lib/firmware/netronome/nic_AMDA0097-0001_8x10.nffw
lib/firmware/netronome/nic_AMDA0099-0001_2x10.nffw
lib/firmware/netronome/nic_AMDA0081-0001_4x10.nffw
lib/firmware/netronome/nic_AMDA0097-0001_4x10_1x40.nffw
lib/firmware/netronome/nic
lib/firmware/netronome/nic/nic_AMDA0081-0001_1x40.nffw
lib/firmware/netronome/nic/nic_AMDA0097-0001_2x40.nffw
lib/firmware/netronome/nic/nic_AMDA0099-0001_2x25.nffw
lib/firmware/n...

This bug was fixed in the package initramfs-tools - 0.130ubuntu3.12

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initramfs-tools (0.130ubuntu3.12) bionic; urgency=medium

  * scripts/local-premount/resume:
    - Use readlink -f to correctly handle non-symlink $resume
      (LP: #1876570)
  * hooks/fsck:
    - don't check PASSNO, always include fsck
      (LP: #1917780)
  * hook-functions:
    - include firmware from /lib/firmware/updates
      (LP: #1571506)

 -- Dan Streetman <email address hidden> Thu, 18 Mar 2021 14:48:17 -0400