[ipxe-devel] Missing non-free firmware

[Geert Stappers]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 08:49:51PM +0200, Ghassan Elrayah wrote:
> On 4/9/19 7:53 PM, Ghassan Elrayah wrote:
> > On 4/9/19 6:56 PM, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 06:30:16PM +0200, Ghassan Elrayah wrote:
> > > > On 4/9/19 4:57 PM, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > > > > On 09-04-2019 16:46, Ghassan Elrayah wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I have an issue with missing non-free firmware for ....
> > > > > > way to upload the missing firmware with IPXE?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > into
> > > > > 
> > > > > initrd ${base-url}/initrd.gz
> > > > > initrd tftp://ipxe01.server.lej.sprd.net/preseed/debian_buster_node.seed /tmp/debian_buster_node.seed
> > > > > initrd URL://server.subdomain.tld/path/firmware/bnx.fw /lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.13.1.fw
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > What do you mean by this line:
> > > > 
> > > > initrd URL://server.subdomain.tld/path/firmware/bnx.fw /lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.13.1.fw
> > > > 
> > > > should the URL point to the local firmware file on the ipxe server, after
> > > > coping it to /srv/tftp/ folder, something like this:
> > > > 
> > > > initrd tftp:///my.ipxe.server/bnx2x-e2-7.13.1.fw /lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.13.1.fw
> > > Yes, indeed. Simular as you did with the preseed file.
> > > 
> > >  ( See also https://ipxe.org/cmd/initrd )
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > > and see what happens.
> > > > > Please share your results.
> > > > Thanks
> > >  ;-)
> > > 
> > Unfortunately it is not working. I put the firmware file in /tmp and /mnt.
> > I tied to put the deb file in /tmp, /mnt/,
> > I treid with tar.gz and zip file but nothing, still complaining about missing firmware.
> > Is there a way to cat the cpio firmware file to the end of the initrd.gz?
> > The installer seem not to find the firmware file.
> > 
> > 
> I could fix it and upload the missing non-free firmware by adding the following line to my menu.ipxe:
> 
> initrd http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/buster/current/firmware.cpio.gz
 

Thanks for reporting back.

It will take a while before I can test something like
 initrd tftp:///my.ipxe.server/bnx2x-e2-7.13.1.fw /lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.13.1.fw


Any confirms on

  yes
    initrd http://my.server/path/initrd.gz
    initrd http://my.server/path/foobar.fw   /lib/firmware/foobar.fw
  works for me. Kernel does find the foobar.fw at  /lib/firmware
?


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Geert Stappers
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