On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 7:49 AM Hans de Goede <hdegoede(a)redhat.com> 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.