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xyhlon

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Registered: 2021-11-29

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Is any of these firmware issues after the update a concern?

==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qla2xxx
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qed
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qla1280
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: bfa
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: wd719x
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: xhci_pci

Thx for the help

Slithery

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Re: Is any of these firmware issues after the update a concern?

That depends. Do you have any of that hardware in your system?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=273413

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xyhlon

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Re: Is any of these firmware issues after the update a concern?

sorry for asking how do I find out which hw i have that uses these drivers?

loqs

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Re: Is any of these firmware issues after the update a concern?

Do the warnings appear when generating both the default initrd and the fallback initrd?  Does dmesg contain messages from any of the modules you listed that it could not load firmware?
See also Mkinitcpio#Possibly_missing_firmware_for_module_XXXX.

Last edited by loqs (2022-02-23 23:13:51)

xyhlon

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Re: Is any of these firmware issues after the update a concern?

dmesg doesn't contain any of the packages listed. However using mkinitcpio -P, to create the initrd and the fallback get the warning as well

loqs

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Re: Is any of these firmware issues after the update a concern?

dmesg doesn't contain any of the packages listed. However using mkinitcpio -P, to create the initrd and the fallback get the warning as well

For which module?  My guess would be xhci_pci.  If there is no mention in dmesg and the system's USB ports work as expected then your system does not need the related firmware.

Last edited by loqs (2022-02-24 00:06:44)

xyhlon

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Re: Is any of these firmware issues after the update a concern?

During the building process it mentions all of the above. None of the modules are mentioned in the dmesg and USB ports do not work it doesn't mount them automatically in gnome and doesn't list them in lsusb.

loqs

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Re: Is any of these firmware issues after the update a concern?

If I understand you correctly mkinitcpio is including all of those modules in both the default and fallback initrds which is somewhat unusual.  Did you remove the autodetect hook or change its position?

xyhlon

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Re: Is any of these firmware issues after the update a concern?

Sorry, I misunderstood you. As you suspected only the xhci_pci is mentioned in the both default and fallback build initrds.
```
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Starting build: 5.16.10-arch1-1
  -> Running build hook: [base]
  -> Running build hook: [udev]
  -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
  -> Running build hook: [modconf]
  -> Running build hook: [block]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: xhci_pci
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
  -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
  -> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Image generation successful
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'fallback'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
==> Starting build: 5.16.10-arch1-1
  -> Running build hook: [base]
  -> Running build hook: [udev]
  -> Running build hook: [modconf]
  -> Running build hook: [block]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qla2xxx
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qed
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qla1280
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: bfa
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: wd719x
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: xhci_pci
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
  -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
  -> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
==> Image generation successful
```