focal linux-firmware package omits amdgpu/navi12 firmware
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| linux-firmware (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
| Focal |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Juerg Haefliger | ||
| Impish |
Won't Fix
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
| Jammy |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
[Impact]
The 20.04 LTS linux-firmware package list was cut before the amdgpu/navi12* firmware files were upstreamed to the Linux kernel repository, which is unfortunate because this hardware is older than some other included firmware (navi14*), and the firmware is required for using the AMDGPU kernel module on AWS EC2 cloud instances with AMD GPUs.
The files are included in 21.04 and 21.10, but to date they have not been included in the LTS hardware-enablement releases for 20.04. It would be helpful to include the navi12 firmware files for the next LTS+HWE release, since 22.04 isn't due out for a while.
Without this firmware it is difficult to get AWS EC2 G4ad instances working with Ubuntu, as customers need to manually download and install the firmware from a reputable source and put it into the appropriate directory, which is not the experience they expect on hardware that is over a year old with the most recent HWE release.
[Test Case]
See above.
[Fix]
Backport amdgpu/nav12* from linux-firmware Jammy.
[Where Problems Could Occur]
Graphics problems, kernel crashes on machines with AMD GPU.
[Notes]
This is required for the HWE kernel so not updating linux-firmware in Impish.
| Changed in linux-firmware (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
| Changed in linux-firmware (Ubuntu Focal): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| assignee: | nobody → Juerg Haefliger (juergh) |
| tags: | added: kern-2008 |
| description: | updated |
| Changed in linux-firmware (Ubuntu Impish): | |
| status: | New → Won't Fix |
| description: | updated |
| Changed in linux-firmware (Ubuntu Focal): | |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
| Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote Please test proposed package | #1 |
| Henry Goffin (amzn-hgoffin) wrote | #2 |
| tags: | added: verification-done-focal |
| Robie Basak (racb) wrote | #3 |
| Henry Goffin (amzn-hgoffin) wrote | #4 |
| Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote Update Released | #5 |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #6 |
| Changed in linux-firmware (Ubuntu Focal): | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Hello Henry, or anyone else affected,
Accepted linux-firmware into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https:/
Please help us by testing this new package. See https:/
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-
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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.