Hi, On 4/29/20 4:57 PM, Justin Forbes wrote:
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 9:50 AM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: Hi, On 4/29/20 4:12 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 1:57 PM Justin Forbes <jforbes@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jforbes@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 7:49 AM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On 4/29/20 11:58 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> As discussed before the new SOF audio driver needed for audio to >>>> function properly on recent Intel based laptops needs the >>>> alsa-sof-firmware package. >>>> >>>> For F32 this has been added to comps, but for F31 and for people >>>> upgrading from F31, we are still getting bug reports that audio >>>> does not work with newer kernels, see e.g. : >>>> >>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1806334 >>>> >>>> So we need to do something for F31 ASAP (and rely on people fully >>>> updating F31 before upgrading to fix upgrades to F32). >>>> >>>> My proposal still is to add a: >>>> >>>> Requires: alsa-sof-firmware >>>> >>>> To the F31 (and F30) kernel-modules sub-package. >>>> >>>> If I receive no objections to this I will add this change >>>> to distgit soon , so that it can be picked up by the next >>>> kernel build. >>>> >>>> Or even better if the maintainer of the current F30/F31 >>>> kernel can do this before the next build, that would be >>>> great. >>> >>> And we just got the 3th bug report for this in 2 days: >>> >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1772498#c240 >>> >>> Again after an upgrade to Fedora 32 (I guess people were >>> sticking with an older kernel on F31). >>> >>> I think we should consider also adding the Requires to >>> the F32 kernel-modules and rely on the comps thing for >>> F33 and later only. >>> >> >> I am not particularly happy with having to add it when the majority of >> systems do not actually require it, but I have seen the bugs and understand >> the position we are in. The alsa-sof-firmware package is 384k, I think >> adding it might be the best course of action. > > Can we do a recommends rather than a hard requires please? Good point, yes that should work fine, while allowing people who really don't want it / want to save the space to opt out. So lets go with the Recommends. Sure, I can add it to all of the 5.6.8 builds.
Great, thank you. Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
