2026-03-10

Changes to linux-firmware may require manual intervention

To reduce installation size, firmware provided by linux-firmware is now compressed with zstd. Ensure you are running a supported kernel when updating to linux-firmware-20260309_1 or later:

• linux5.10>=5.10.251_1
• linux5.15>=5.15.201_1
• linux6.1>=6.1.127_1
• linux6.6>=6.6.68_1
• linux6.12>=6.12.7_1
• linux6.18, linux6.19, or any later version
• rpi-kernel>=6.12.67_1
• pinephone-kernel>=6.1.7_2

If you cannot run one of these kernels, you can hold the linux-firmware packages at their currently-installed version:

# xbps-pkgdb -m hold linux-firmware linux-firmware-amd linux-firmware-broadcom \
    linux-firmware-intel linux-firmware-network linux-firmware-nvidia linux-firmware-qualcomm