#1016286 Bogus warnings about missing firmware (nvidia) while updating initramfs

#1016286#5
Date:
2022-07-29 17:35:41 UTC
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Hello,

When invoking update-initramfs (e.g., after a kernel update), I'm
getting a bunch of warnings:

Configurando linux-image-5.10.0-16-amd64 (5.10.127-2) ...
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-16-amd64
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp100/acr/ucode_load.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp100/acr/bl.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gm206/acr/ucode_load.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gm206/acr/bl.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gm204/acr/ucode_load.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gm204/acr/bl.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gm200/acr/ucode_load.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gm200/acr/bl.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp100/acr/ucode_unload.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gm206/acr/ucode_unload.bin for module nouveau

(...)

But none of these blobs files are really needed for nouveau driver on
my old hardware:

root@stt008:~# lspci | grep -i vga
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV43 [Quadro NVS 440] (rev a2)
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV43 [Quadro NVS 440] (rev a2)

Would be nice some kind of «magic» to prevent these warning reaching
users when these files are not needed at all on old cards (backwards
kepler).

Greetings,

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