Intel wireless firmware updates for Ubuntu LTS

[Grumbach, Emmanuel]

On Tue, 2025-08-12 at 12:05 +0200, Juerg Haefliger wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Aug 2025 11:13:28 +0000
> "Grumbach, Emmanuel" <emmanuel.grumbach at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > > > 
> > > > How can we have you deploy the latest stable versions?  
> > > 
> > > You'd have to follow the SRU process [1]. Basically open a bug
> > > report, fill
> > > in the justification and other details and then verify the
> > > changes
> > > once they
> > > land in -proposed. Yes it's painful.
> > > 
> > > Just to be clear, I'd love to always ship updated firmwares (at
> > > least
> > > the
> > > ones from vendors we have confidence in) but it's against policy.
> > > Maybe we
> > > can have an internal discussion to see if we can make exceptions
> > > for
> > > certain
> > > firmwares.  
> > 
> > Ok.. I understand. Just so that you know that in case people do
> > have
> > issues like firmware crashes etc... you can file a bug on upstream
> > bugzilla. We monitor the component network-wireless-intel.
> > I'll be glad to get bugs from you which would make you update the
> > firmware bits, but without deviating from your SRU process ;)
> 
> I'm doing that already (for example [1]) but only once I'm fully
> convinced
> that it's not an Ubuntu-specific issue. But it still requires users
> reporting issues and willing to work with us...

Excellent.
If you want, you can also report firmware crashes for example. That's
fairly easy to know if a fix was made available later.

> 
> 
> > 
> > Jokes aside, would it be helpful to send you the release notes so
> > that
> > you can see what has been fixed between releases?
> > 
> 
> Dunno without having seeing one.

Fair.

I suggest to close this thread. I got the idea of your process. For the
case that triggered this thread, I asked the downstream distro to open
a ticket to update the firmware once they validated the fix improves
things on their side.
That's the best I can do.

Thanks for your time!

> 
> ...Juerg
> 
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219978