Head_on_a_Stick wrote:Firmware files are fine to grab with git, Debian seem to have lost interest in updating their firmware packages so it's the simplest solution at the moment.
Alternatively MX Linux have ported Ubuntu's firmware to a Debian buster base, you can use their .deb package: http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/ahs/l/li ... +1_all.deb
It's frustrating to see that there is no official workaround for new hardware+debian, from debian. But thank you for this interesting workaround.
Bloom wrote:If you need firmware, try the Debian non-free repositories with non-free and/or closed-source firmware packages first.
I already did, but there's still lots of things missing, from firmware fixes, to firmware binaries themselves. Debian sid's firmware package is almost a year old (20190717), so its understandable why new wifi/bt hardware is not going to work at all, or why some laptops will run hot, or some graphics are going to be glitchy.
I already tried grabbing firmware from git, and it works as expected, correctly, I was just wondering if it was let say an approved practice for daily use in a main machine. At the moment I think I'm going to wait a bit before I replace Fedora with Debian Stable + backported kernel/firmware. Since I know there's going to be a lot of fixes/features I need coming to kernel 5.8 and perhaps 5.9, 5.10...
Thank you bros.
