warning missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/ in 5.11 kernel

Bug #1947641 reported by TQ
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Bug Description

I get a bunch of warning when install live-boot. looks like the linux-firmware missing some of the intel video card driver. I see it happens many times in different versions. A lot of people meet this issue. And some people hack it by download it manually from some website. But I don't like the way. I hope I can get some official solution because this bug is not new. And I am working on a project to make a customized file system. So I need it support AS More Firmware AS Possible and should stable and security. So I need make sure there have an official solution for this.

the following is the missing file and the kernel I am using. Hope it is enough to identity the issue.

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.11.0-37-generic
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/skl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/bxt_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/kbl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/glk_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/kbl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/kbl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/cml_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/icl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/ehl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/ehl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/tgl_huc_7.5.0.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/tgl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/tgl_huc_7.5.0.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/tgl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/dg1_dmc_ver2_02.bin for module i915

# uname -r
5.11.0-37-generic

Revision history for this message
Juerg Haefliger (juergh) wrote :

We don't blindly add FW blobs just to silence update-initramfs.

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