Stale firmware symlink
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux-firmware (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Groovy |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
[Impact]
On Groovy with linux-firmware 1.190.3:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 54 Jan 7 15:40 brcmfmac43455-
That link target is wrong and doesn't exist, it should be without the 'brcm/' prefix.
[Test Case]
$ ls -la /lib/firmware/
[Fix]
The upstream fix is:
commit a9993f8d3b241f7
Author: Takashi Iwai <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Sep 8 12:16:56 2020 +0200
brcm: Fix a stale symlink for RPi3 model b+
The symlink for brcmfmac43455-
was wrongly listed with the same subdirectory brcm, and this resulted
in a stale symlink. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <email address hidden>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <email address hidden>
[Where Problems Could Occur]
Firmware is now loaded on Pi 3A+ at boot which didn't happen before so theoretically that could crash the kernel if it's buggy.
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in linux-firmware (Ubuntu Groovy): | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
Changed in linux-firmware (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Hello Juerg, or anyone else affected,
Accepted linux-firmware into groovy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https:/ /launchpad. net/ubuntu/ +source/ linux-firmware/ 1.190.4 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- groovy to verification- done-groovy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification- failed- groovy. 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/ PerformingSRUVe rification . 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.