Missing firmware /lib/firmware/intel/ice/ddp/ice.pkg for ice driver

[Mauricio Faria de Oliveira]

[Impact]

 * Missing firmware for Intel ICE driver on Bionic,
   which is supported by the HWE kernel from Focal.

[Fix]

 * commit 9ae61e7d8658 ("ice: Add package file for Intel E800 series driver")
   brings the Bionic package in line with Focal (ice-1.3.4.0.pkg,LICENSE.ice)

[Test Case]

 * Without firmware:

    ice 0000:98:00.0: firmware 5.4.5 api 1.7.6 nvm 2.40 0x8000706a 0.0.0 build 0x391f7640
    ice 0000:98:00.0: Direct firmware load for intel/ice/ddp/ice.pkg failed with error -2
    ice 0000:98:00.0: The DDP package file was not found or could not be read. Entering Safe Mode
    ice 0000:98:00.0: Package download failed. Advanced features disabled - Device now in Safe Mode

 * With firmware:

    ice 0000:98:00.0: firmware 5.4.5 api 1.7.6 nvm 2.40 0x8000706a 0.0.0 build 0x391f7640
    ice 0000:98:00.0: The DDP package was successfully loaded: ICE OS Default Package version 1.3.4.0
    ice 0000:98:00.0: DCB is enabled in the hardware, max number of TCs supported on this port are 8
    ice 0000:98:00.0: FW LLDP is disabled, DCBx/LLDP in SW mode.

[Where problems could occur]

 * Systems with devices managed by the ice driver on Bionic HWE kernel from Focal.

 * The firmware enables advanced features, increasing driver exposure and device activity.

 * This has been available on Focal, which helps with some chance of issues being hit and
   reported previously (e.g. bug 1939855, searched for 'kernel ice driver' on bugs.lp.net).

[Mauricio Faria de Oliveira (mfo)]

Bionic test package:

$ dpkg-deb -c linux-firmware_1.173.20+test20220214b1_all.deb | grep -w ice
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2022-02-13 23:10 ./lib/firmware/intel/ice/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2022-02-13 23:10 ./lib/firmware/intel/ice/ddp/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 577796 2022-02-13 23:10 ./lib/firmware/intel/ice/ddp/ice-1.3.4.0.pkg
-rw-r--r-- root/root 2041 2022-02-13 23:21 ./usr/share/doc/linux-firmware/licenses/LICENSE.ice
lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2022-02-13 23:10 ./lib/firmware/intel/ice/ddp/ice.pkg -> ice-1.3.4.0.pkg

Focal package:

$ dpkg-deb -c linux-firmware_1.187.26_all.deb | grep -w ice
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2022-01-28 06:54 ./lib/firmware/intel/ice/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2022-01-28 06:54 ./lib/firmware/intel/ice/ddp/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 577796 2022-01-28 06:54 ./lib/firmware/intel/ice/ddp/ice-1.3.4.0.pkg
-rw-r--r-- root/root 2041 2022-01-28 06:54 ./usr/share/doc/linux-firmware/licenses/LICENSE.ice
lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2022-01-28 06:54 ./lib/firmware/intel/ice/ddp/ice.pkg -> ice-1.3.4.0.pkg

[Mauricio Faria de Oliveira (mfo)]

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2022-February/128061.html

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Hello Mauricio, or anyone else affected,

Accepted linux-firmware into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/1.173.21 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.

[Mauricio Faria de Oliveira (mfo)]

The package in bionic-proposed has been verified by an user
with access to the relevant device; 2 interfaces up/running.

# apt install linux-firmware
...
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed/main amd64 linux-firmware all 1.173.21 [74.8 MB]
...
Setting up linux-firmware (1.173.21) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-99-generic

# reboot
...

$ dmesg|grep ' ice '
[ 4.073233] ice 0000:98:00.0: The driver for the device detected a newer version of the NVM image than expected. Please install the most recent version of the network driver.
[ 4.084040] ice 0000:98:00.0: firmware 5.4.5 api 1.7.6 nvm 2.40 0x8000706a 0.0.0 build 0x391f7640
[ 4.372182] ice 0000:98:00.0: The DDP package was successfully loaded: ICE OS Default Package version 1.3.4.0
[ 4.384818] ice 0000:98:00.0: DCB is enabled in the hardware, max number of TCs supported on this port are 8
[ 4.385116] ice 0000:98:00.0: FW LLDP is disabled, DCBx/LLDP in SW mode.

[ 4.408390] ice 0000:98:00.1: The driver for the device detected a newer version of the NVM image than expected. Please install the most recent version of the network driver.
[ 4.418878] ice 0000:98:00.1: firmware 5.4.5 api 1.7.6 nvm 2.40 0x8000706a 0.0.0 build 0x391f7640
[ 4.419766] ice 0000:98:00.1: DDP package already present on device: ICE OS Default Package version 1.3.4.0
[ 4.432550] ice 0000:98:00.1: DCB is enabled in the hardware, max number of TCs supported on this port are 8
[ 4.432834] ice 0000:98:00.1: FW LLDP is disabled, DCBx/LLDP in SW mode.

[ 4.460921] ice 0000:98:00.1 enp152s0f1: renamed from eth1
[ 4.488092] ice 0000:98:00.0 enp152s0f0: renamed from eth0
[ 6.521594] ice 0000:98:00.1 enp152s0f1: changed MTU to 9000
[ 6.530894] ice 0000:98:00.0 enp152s0f0: changed MTU to 9000
[ 6.993224] ice 0000:98:00.1 enp152s0f1: NIC Link is up 25 Gbps, Requested FEC: RS-FEC, FEC: FC-FEC/BASE-R, Autoneg: False, Flow Control: None
[ 6.996340] ice 0000:98:00.0 enp152s0f0: already using mac 3c:ec:ef:79:7a:f6
[ 7.128953] ice 0000:98:00.0 enp152s0f0: NIC Link is up 25 Gbps, Requested FEC: RS-FEC, FEC: FC-FEC/BASE-R, Autoneg: False, Flow Control: None

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-firmware - 1.173.21

---------------
linux-firmware (1.173.21) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Fix sanity checker and cleanup metadata (LP: #1953587)
    - Makefile: improve `make check` usefulness
    - check_whence: python3/utf-8 support
    - SAUCE: check_whence.py: Add python3 shebang
    - SAUCE: check_whence.py: Also process WHENCE.ubuntu
    - SAUCE: check_whence.py: Ignore debian/ and fw_source/ directories
    - SAUCE: check_whence.py: Ignore ea/ directory
    - Fix File: entries in WHENCE.ubuntu
    - SAUCE: Remove non-existing files from WHENCE
    - Remove non-existing files from WHENCE.ubuntu
    - SAUCE: Add missing files entries to WHENCE
    - Add missing entries to WHENCE.ubuntu
    - Remove unnecessary file LICENCE.tda7706-firmware.txt
  * Miscellaneous Ubuntu changes
    - [Packaging] Move scripts to debian/scripts
    - [Packaging] Add check rule and call it in clean stage
    - [Packaging] Add packaging helper scripts
  * Missing firmware /lib/firmware/intel/ice/ddp/ice.pkg for ice driver (LP: #1960839)
    - ice: Add package file for Intel E800 series driver

 -- Juerg Haefliger <email address hidden> Fri, 18 Feb 2022 15:59:21 +0100

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

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