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Subject: Re: Microcode SW error since Linux 6.5
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To:     Antoine =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Beaupr=E9?= <anarcat@debian.org>,
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Date:   Mon, 25 Sep 2023 21:03:48 +0200
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On Mon, 2023-09-25 at 14:39 -0400, Antoine Beaupr=C3=A9 wrote:
> > Did that patch help?
>=20
> I haven't tried, to be honest. It's been years since I compiled a
> kernel, so I haven't actually seriously considered it. But I can
> definitely put that on my list if it would be useful for you!

Heh ok. Well we can also try it I guess. Or reason our way through it,
but I'm pretty sure something like that should be done here.

> > Yes, you can ... but I mean, we still do want to consider this a bug, I
> > think, since we explicitly built the thing to load the older firmware.
> > It just gets _far_ less testing.
>=20
> Got it, happy to play guinea pig a little further if that's useful.
>=20

Well you might want to go for the extra stability instead :-) I'm kind
of thinking along the lines of "if you can download the next wifi
firmware with the current one, that's probably good enough". :)

johannes