need linux-firmware for rtl bt ( 0bda:b023)

[Hui Wang]

== SRU Justification ==

[Test Case]
boot the system and connnect the bt devices, all works well

[Fix]
Backport the uptream patch

[Regression Potential]
This only adds new firmware files, so no potential for regressions with already working hardware.

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rtl8822b_config.bin
rtl8822b_fw.bin

in the /lib/firmware/rtl_bt/

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

An upload of linux-firmware to xenial-proposed has been rejected from the upload queue for the following reason: "It seems the debian/changelog has the wrong bug attached - LP: #174363 seems like a very old bug for a completely different package. Apparently a digit got lost somewhere. Please fix the changelog entry and re-upload.".

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Is there a test case for this bug and SRU?

[Seth Forshee (sforshee)]

Sigh, I told Hui Wang when he sent the patch that he needed to add the SRU justification, seems he never did it. I'll copy it over from the patch cover letter, only because we really need to get this update moving for bug 1743638.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Hui, 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/1.157.17 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!

[Sean Seago (speedkreature)]

On elementary OS Loki, adding xenial-proposed and upgrading resulted in a functional bluetooth device. The upgrade did, however, upgrade a lot of packages so I just have to assume the fix is was added from this bug. All that said, it's nice to have bluetooth working. Thank you for all that you do!

For reference, the files added/updated were:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-headers-4.13.0-36 linux-headers-4.13.0-36-generic linux-image-4.13.0-36-generic linux-image-extra-4.13.0-36-generic
The following packages will be upgraded:
  bamfdaemon bluez bluez-cups bluez-obexd bsdutils console-setup console-setup-linux cpp-5 g++-5 gcc-5 gcc-5-base
  gnome-accessibility-themes initramfs-tools initramfs-tools-bin initramfs-tools-core keyboard-configuration libasan2 libatomic1
  libaudit-common libaudit1 libbamf3-2 libblkid1 libbluetooth3 libcc1-0 libcilkrts5 libfdisk1 libgcc-5-dev libgomp1 libitm1 liblsan0
  libmount1 libmpx0 libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libpulse0 libpulsedsp libpython-stdlib libquadmath0 libsane libsane-common libsmartcols1
  libstdc++-5-dev libstdc++6 libtsan0 libubsan0 libuuid1 linux-firmware linux-generic-hwe-16.04 linux-headers-generic-hwe-16.04
  linux-image-generic-hwe-16.04 linux-libc-dev mount pulseaudio pulseaudio-module-bluetooth pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-utils python
  python-minimal sane-utils ubuntu-drivers-common util-linux uuid-runtime

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-firmware - 1.157.17

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linux-firmware (1.157.17) xenial; urgency=medium

  * need linux-firmware for rtl bt ( 0bda:b023) (LP: #1747336)
    - rtl_bt: Add firmware and config file for RTL8822BE
    - rtl_bt: Update firmware for BT part of rtl8822be

  * Missing install-time driver for QLogic QED 25/40/100Gb Ethernet NIC
    (LP: #1743638)
    - UBUNTU: Add QLogic QED firmware to nic-firmware.lst

 -- Seth Forshee <email address hidden> Wed, 14 Feb 2018 08:19:39 -0600

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

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.