Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:57:33 -0700 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: will remove iwlwifi firmware from src.git (main and stable/14) in April Message-ID: <6DF6281C-3D05-47C9-9370-D9130EC504FC@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <4F9D70EA-61A1-4F68-8938-E308344332ED@yahoo.com> References: <4F9D70EA-61A1-4F68-8938-E308344332ED@yahoo.com>
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[Just a resend with the current and stable lists included.] On Mar 19, 2025, at 13:49, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote: Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote on Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:55:17 UTC : > Hi, >=20 > I pushed an update to the iwlwifi firmware port today[1] and with the = last > release of FreeBSD 13 being out the door, 14.1-Release EoL end of this > month passed and the packages for the updated port appearing I'll >=20 > !!! > remove iwlwifi firmware from src.git for main and stable/14 > some time early April. > !!! >=20 >=20 > * What you need to do? >=20 > Please run fwget(8) to install the right firmware package for your = chipset > if you have not already and then pkg upgrades will provide updates as = needed. > You can do this today already as that won't change the status quo = compared > to what is in the tree. FYI: # fwget -v Trying to match device 0x7d55 in class video and vendor intel with = pci_video_intel No package found for device 0x7d55 Trying to match device 0x272b in class network and vendor intel with = pci_network_intel Trying to match device 0x5260 in class misc and vendor realtek with = pci_misc_realtek Needed firmware packages: 'wifi-firmware-iwlwifi-kmod-bz' pkg: No SRV record found for the repo 'base' pkg: packagesite URL error for = pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_latest/data.pkg -- = pkg+:// implies SRV mirror type pkg: packagesite URL error for = pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_latest/data.tzst -- = pkg+:// implies SRV mirror type pkg: packagesite URL error for = pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_latest/packagesite.pkg = -- pkg+:// implies SRV mirror type pkg: packagesite URL error for = pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_latest/packagesite.tzst = -- pkg+:// implies SRV mirror type After changing to use pkg+https:// : # fwget -v Trying to match device 0x7d55 in class video and vendor intel with = pci_video_intel No package found for device 0x7d55 Trying to match device 0x272b in class network and vendor intel with = pci_network_intel Trying to match device 0x5260 in class misc and vendor realtek with = pci_misc_realtek Needed firmware packages: 'wifi-firmware-iwlwifi-kmod-bz' pkg: Repository base has a wrong packagesite, need to re-create database (A "pkg update -r base" dealt with that and the next try reported that the firmware was already in place.) >=20 > * Why is this happening? >=20 > iwlwifi following rtw88 and rtw89 after a request from core to not add > more binary blob wireless firmware into src.git (accumulated firmware > for a set of modern wireless drivers at that time would have been > slightly over 100MB if I remember correctly with the amount = increasing). >=20 > As a result firmware was put into ports, broken down into flavors, = added > to fwget(8) to automatically install it, updated the port to no longer > install kernel modules but firmware files on 14.2-R and later, = enhanced > the install media to contain firmware so wireless-only laptops could = have > connectivity with these drivers, and enhanced the installer to have a = step > to run fwget and install firmware into the new installation. All of = this > shipped in 14.2-R already. > Thanks to everyone who helped along these steps to make it all happen. >=20 >=20 > * What's your bonus? >=20 > If you have't already tried yourself, the updated port will also turn = on > HT and VHT by default for iwlwifi chipsets 22000, ax210, and bz = (that's > AX200 and newer) on both main and stable/14. > Reports so far have been encouraging enough from some people who've = been > testing during the last weeks (the rough edges being sorted step but > step now). For more information about how to test, about older = chipsets, > or other drivers see the wireless mailing list archive[2] of this year > and the FreeBSD Foundation Laptop Project on github [3] for links to = the > postings. >=20 > Please follow up as appropriate on the wireless list. >=20 In the first context that I tried this, fwget also dealt with gpu-firmware*-mod-* packages. My notes do not seem to be tied to specifically wireless contexts. fwget is a script that does any installs via: pkg install -qy ${packages} Nothing is explicitly present to allow control the repository(s) used. This could be a problem when there are multiple such enabled? Plus there might be ties to which pkg+??? protocols should be used. Also, I'm not sure how things go for when the likes of: kmods_latest_2/ kmods_quarterly_2/ need to be used. (My context tends to be main so I've not tried stable/14 [14.2] yet [when 14.1 is still what the normal official builds are for].) If nothing else, the man man page probably could use some notes about what is required for the installation command to work well in various types of contexts that might not be correctly automatic. =3D=3D=3D Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
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